History of google , complete overview

               

History of google, complete overview

Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as a side project in 1996. Larry and Sergey were Stanford University students in California. They developed a concept for a search engine as part of their research project that would rank websites based on how many other websites connected to them (and ultimately came up with the Google we have today). The two set out to create a more "smart" search engine since before Google, search engines just ranked websites based on how frequently the search word occurred on the webpage.
 

                                               

 Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2003

 

Google Corporation was established a year after the domain google.com was registered, on September 14th, 1997.

                                                      

The first Google computer

 

In 2000, Google began to monetize its keyword searches, giving rise to Google AdWords/AdSense. The term Pay Per Click (PPC) was coined as a result of the advertising technique that pretended that you only paid for your advertising if someone clicked on your ad link.

In September 2001, the term PageRank was patented; contrary to popular belief, this phrase is called after co-founder Larry Page and not because it refers to a page's rank (webpage).

 

Additionally, in 2001, co-founder Larry Page resigned from his positions as Google's CEO and Novel's CEO. Eric Schmidt has been named as Google's next CEO.

In 2003, Google relocated its headquarters to the sizable Google estate (affectionately known as Googleplex) in Mountainview, California, where it is still headquartered today.

Google introduced Gmail, a free web-based email service, in 2004. This service was created to compete with Yahoo's and Microsoft's free online mail offerings (Hotmail). With a massive 1 GB of email storage, which was ten times larger than its competitors, this new free email service upended the fundamental notion of free email.

 

Google introduced Google Earth in 2004. An incredible invention, Google Earth is a map of the planet based on satellite photos. You can use this interactive globe of the world to search for any location in the world, and you will be sent there immediately. The nice thing about Google Earth is that you can zoom in close enough to view your own street and even your home!
 

Google entered into a new cooperation with NASA in September 2005, which is an intriguing development in the company's history. This required the construction of a research and development facility measuring 1 million square feet at NASA's Ames Research Center. It's important to note that a few months later, Google Mars and Google Moon, two Google maps-style applications, were introduced. These were based on images of the moon and the planet Mars, respectively.
 

Google introduced Google Video in 2006. A great new search tool is Google Video. You may use Google Video to search the internet for videos, as its name suggests. You can choose from thousands of videos to start your search, including TV shows produced by major television companies as well as home recordings recorded by individual people.

The verb "to Google" has become so common that Google even worried that their brand name might no longer be protected by copyright and patents, allowing other businesses to be able to legally use the Google brand in their own brands. In 2006, Google was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb.

 

Google currently has a monopoly controlling share of the search market (article written at the end of 2006). With a 54% market share, Google is the most popular search engine on the internet. Google's nearest competitor, Yahoo!, holds a market share of 23%, less than half that of Google, while MSN, which is in third place with a market share of 13%, is even further behind Yahoo! If these numbers aren't impressive enough for Google, you can see that the company is very successful thanks to estimates that more than 80% of search referrals originate from Google. In addition, Google receives about a billion search requests every day and is thought to make 12 cents for each search you conduct.
 

It's feasible that Google may become a very important part of all of our lives in the years to come given the numerous applications and products it has released as well as its power over the internet.

History of Beginning

Page had been examining various options for his dissertation topic, including investigating the mathematical aspects of the World Wide Web and viewing its link structure as a massive graph. The best advice I ever received, according to Page, came from his supervisor Terry Winograd, who encouraged him to pursue this idea. Page concentrated on the challenge of determining which web pages link to a given page, reasoning that the quantity and type of backlinks provided useful information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).

 

Page immediately welcomed Brin, who was funded by a Graduate Fellowship from the National Science Foundation, to his research team in his "BackRub" project. Page and Brin had become good friends by the time Page was a member of a group of prospective new students that Brin offered to walk around the campus in the summer of 1995. Working on the Stanford Digital Library Project were Brin and Page (SDLP). The National Science Foundation, among other federal organizations, provided funding for the SDLP, which had the stated objective of "developing the necessary technologies for a single, integrated, and universal digital library."

 

The single starting point for Page's web crawler's exploration of the internet was his own Stanford home page in March 1996. [3] Brin and Page created the PageRank algorithm to translate the backlink data they acquired for a particular web page into an indicator of relevance. [3] The pair discovered that a search engine based on PageRank would generate better results than current methods when evaluating BackRub's output, which for a given URL consisted of a list of backlinks ranked by importance (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page).

 

Page and Brin tested their hypothesis as part of their research and built the foundation for their search engine because they were convinced that the Web pages with the most links pointing to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages linked with the search.

Acquisition of Pyra Labs

Since 2001, Google has purchased several small businesses, many of which have creative teams and goods. Pyra Labs was one of the first businesses that Google purchased. Blogger, a platform for publishing weblogs that was initially introduced in 1999, was developed by them. Due to this transaction, a lot of premium features are now free. Evan Williams founded Pyra Labs in the beginning, but he departed Google in 2004. Early in 2006, Google purchased Upstartle, the business behind Writely, an online collaborative word processor. Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a hybrid of this product's technology and Google Spreadsheets.