Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995 and created a search engine called Backrub in 1996. They realized that a search engine based on PageRank, which analyzes the link relationships between websites, would produce better search results than existing techniques. In 1998, they received $25 million in funding, incorporated Google, and moved their offices to Palo Alto. Google grew rapidly over the years, launching major products like Gmail, Google Maps, Android, and YouTube. It also made major acquisitions like Motorola Mobility and YouTube. Today, Google has over 50,000 employees working in over 40 countries and a net worth of around $200 billion.
3. 1996
¡ñ Page and Brin created a search engine
named as ¡°BACKRUB¡±
¡ñ It occurred to them that a search engine based
on ¡°PageRank¡± would produce better results
than existing techniques.
4. What is PageRank?
¡ñ A way of analyzing websites based on their link
relationships.
¡ñ PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic
nature of the web by using its vast link structure
as an indicator of an individual page¡¯s value.
¡ñ In essence, it interprets a link from page A to
page B as a vote, by page A, for page B.
5. ¡ñ But, it looks at more than the sheer volume of
votes, or links a page receives and it also
analyzes the page that casts the vote.
¡ñ Votes cast by pages that are themselves
¡°important¡± weigh more heavily and help to
make other pages ¡°important.¡±
6. Difference between PageRank and
existing techniques at that time
Other techniques PageRank
¡ñ At the time that Page and ¡ñ Page and Brin's theory is
Brin met, search engines that the search results
typically linked to pages should not only be
that had the highest depending on the
keyword density, which keywords but also link
meant people could relationships.
game the system by
repeating the same
phrase over and over to
attract higher search
page results.
7. 1998
¡ñ Larry and Sergey got their first big investment of
$25 million
¡ñ They moved from Stanford to their new office at
Palo Alto , which is in same city
8. ¡ñ Larry and Sergey formally incorporated their
company and it Google Inc.
9. 2000
Google hit many milestones :
¡ñ Its 26th official language.
¡ñ Its first two webby awards.
¡ñ Became the largest search index
on internet.
10. 2001
¡ñ Sergey and Larry hired Google's first
CEO, Eric Schmidt
¡ñ Also opened its first international office in Tokyo
¡ñ Google IMAGES with 250 million images pages
11. 2002
¡ñ Launched Google NEWS with 4000
news resources online.
13. 2004
Google launched Orkut , its ¡ñ Google also introduced Gmail
social networking site with 1 gb storage space
14. 2005
¡ñ Google introduced Google Maps and Google
Talks
Google maps Google Talks
15. 2006
By this year:
¡ñ Google announced that it would buy the popular
online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion
¡ñ It release Google Trends, a way to visualize the
popularity of searches over time.
16. 2007
¡ñ Android mobile operating system
was introduced.
17. 2008
by this year,
¡ñ 20,222 employees in Googolplex, the
headquarter of Google
AND
¡ñ It enters the browser wars with introducing its
browser Google chrome
20. 2010
¡ñ Google was the 2nd most visited website
in behind Facebook.
¡ñ Google ended the year with $35 billion in cash
21. 2011
What was left for the Google to take on ?
¡ñ It acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5
billion
22. Today
¡ñ Google has more than 70 offices in more than
40 countries around the globe.
¡ñ Google¡¯s net worth is around $ 200 billion with
53,546 employees working making it one of the
largest multinational companies