History Of Google
- 1. History of By Dan, Sam & Louie
- 2. Origins - Google began in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin Ph.D students in Stanford University. Both of these students were interested in the mathematics of the Internet, studying how each website could be located through its roots of urls and connections between each other. -The initial search engine was named “BackRub”, named for its analysis of the web’s “backlinks”. Google took its official name from a brainstorm to “Googol” short for “Googolplex” and its spelling was an accident when another student misspelled the word during the domain search. Larry Page & Sergey Brin The first google computer - composed of lego
- 3. Launch The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998 in their friend Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California.
- 4. Business -Google owns and operates nine data centres across US, Asia and Europe all powered by 100% renewable energy and storing a total of 15 exabytes of cloud data ( equal to 30 million home computers ) . -As of 2015 Google has 57,100 staff working for them around the world . -2nd October 2015 - The founders of Google set up their own umbrella parent company “ Alphabet “ to make Google's services “ cleaner and more accountable” whilst furthering each of the seven subsidiaries separate directions and products.
- 5. Timeline 1995 - 2007 1995 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University 1996 - Page and Brin begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub, named for its ability to analyse website backlinks for relevance · The first version of Google is released on the Stanford University website in August 1997 - Google.com is registered 1998 - An unincorporated Google Inc receives its first investment: $100,000 (£56,000) from Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim · Google sets up a workspace in a garage in Silicon Valley 1999 - Google outgrows its garage office and moves to an office with eight employees 2000 - The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish 2002 - Major partnership with AOL - Google News launched, with 4,000 sources 2004 - Gmail launched - Google goes public 2005 - Google Maps and Google Earth launched 2006 - Acquires video-sharing site YouTube 2007 - Streetview Launched
- 6. Timeline 2008-2017 2008 - Search Index reaches 1 Trillion - Google Chrome Announced 2009 - Releases Google Chrome OS for 3rd Party Netbooks 2010 - Unveils Google Nexus One mobile phone 2011 - Announces plans to buy Motorola Mobility - Google Plus 1 Social Network Launched 2012 - Revenue hits 50 Million Dollars 2013- Purchases Boston Dynamics Robotics 2014 - Acquires Nest home automation buisness 2015 - Makes 15 buisness acquisitions - Restructured Buisness through Alphabet 2016 - Makes another 15 buisness acquisitions -Focus on Artificial Inteligence 2017 - Google fights with Uber reagrding self driving technology
- 7. Google's Companies A - Android / AdSense / Analytics / Ara / AdMob / Alerts B - Blogger / Boston Dynamics / Books C - Calico / Cardboard / Capital D - Drive / DeepMind / Design / DoubleClick E - Earth / Express F - Fiber / Fi / Flights / FeedBurner / Firebase / Finance G - Google / Gmail / Glass / Groups H - Hangouts I - Images / Ingress / Inbox / Invite Media J - Jump K - Keep L - Life Sciences / Local / Loon M - Maps / My Business / Makani N - Nest / News / Nexus / Now/ Niantic O - Offers P - Plus / Play / Photos / Picasa / Pixate / Patents Q - (Nexus) Q R - Refine / reCaptcha S - Search / Shopping / SageTV /Stackdriver / Skybox / Skia / Scholar T - Translate / Tango U - N/A V - Voice / Ventures / VirusTotal / Video W - Wallet / Wing X - X Labs Y - YouTube Z - Project Z / Zagat
- 8. Net worth of Google Google entered the stock market and incorporated their company on September 4th 1998. As of 9/3/2017, the overall net worth and cost of Google is valued to $498 Billion. Compared to Apple, which is around $495 Billion, Google has been certified as the most dominant web development company in the world. (X495)
- 9. Users Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average (visualize them here), which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. There are also over 2.2 Google conglomerated accounts that are linked with all of the additional services such as Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Earth, YouTube and Plus (+). Plus is one of the least popular services Google has used as only 111 million of theses users have used the social network.
- 10. Criticism Over the years, Google has collectively been known to have multiple cases of controversy from the Media. For example, Google was avoiding tax for months most notably in Ireland and UK costing up £120 million. Google was also being connected with other government affiliates such NSA with its PRISM program, as revealed by Edward Snowden which brought up the subject of privacy with its services. With its PRISM program, the National Security Agency have connections with google with cumulate search histories, emails, documents and much more and store digital address to the devices IP, account details and other connecting services and accounts used with the Google account.