HISTORY OF THE GOOGLE

HISTORY OF THE GOOGLE (THE MOST POPULAR SEARCH ENGINE)

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Google was found by two students named Larry page and Sergey of Stanford University of California in 1996. Firstly, they named it Back Rub They incorporated this as company on September 4, 1998 and Initial Public Offering (IPO) took place on August, 2004. In august 2015, company announced planes to recognize its numerous interest as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc.. Sunder Pichai  was appointed as a CEO of Google and Larry Page become the CEO of Alphabet.The company grew exponentially with partnership with various advertisements. It offers services designed for work and productivity including word documents, Google sheets, Google presentation slides, Emails, Google drive and other social media applications. Google also has introduced several other platforms such as Google Maps, Google Translate, YouTube, Note Taking ; apart from these Google has developed Android which is one of the popular mobile operating systems, Company has created Web Browsers include Google Chrome .Google also tried its luck in hardware and launched various hardware products in October 2016. Most favorite products include Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Wi-Fi router etc.Google.com is the most visited website in the world. Google’s other services products such as YouTube and Blogger are figured in the top 100, nevertheless, Google was the most valuable brand in the world in 2007.

Google Ad sense was introduced by Google in 2003 which has become a popular advertisement platform.

Funding of the company..

 This might be the common question in mind of many people. How Google emerged as top ranked website without funding. Google was initially funded in 1998 with the contribution of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Micro systems. Google received money from three other investors named Jeff Bezos (Amazon’s founder) David Chariton, and renowned entrepreneur Ram Shriram. $25 million was invested by some other major investors include Venture Capital firms and Sequoia Capital in 1999.

Success History

 Google moved to its office to Palo Alto, California in March 1999. In the next year, Google begin selling advertisement associated with search keywords on its web pages. The first selling keyword advertisement was pioneered by Goto.Com. In June 2000, Google became the default search engine provider for Yahoo, which was at utmost rank at that time. In 2005, The Washington Post reported on a 700 percent increase in third quarter profit of Google. This happened because large companies choose internet as a medium for advertisement. In 2009, more than a billion searches were being typed into the Google search engine on a daily basis.Google generated $50 billion annual revenue in 2012 and in 2018, Google announced to expand its workforce up to 12000 employees in New York City.

Google made its first investment in a renewable energy project, putting $38 million into two wind farms in North Dakota.

Google had deleted 39 YouTube accounts, 13 Google+ accounts and 6 blog accounts due to their link in politically motivated phishing, these accounts were found to be tied with Islamic states.