Google is 25 Years Old! How Was Google, the World's Most Popular Search Engine, Founded?

Google is 25 Years Old! How Was Google, the World's Most Popular Search Engine, Founded?

Google is celebrating its 25th anniversary as the most preferred search engine of internet users. The special doodle prepared for Google's birthday welcomes those who are curious about the history of Google. So, how was Google founded? Who are the founders of Google? How did Google's success story begin? Here's what you need to know about Google's history!

The Founding of Google Began with a Research Project The founding of Google began in 1996 with a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, PhD students at Stanford University. Page and Brin developed a new system for analyzing inter-site relationships. They called this system PageRank. PageRank ranks the sites according to the interest shown by determining the link conversions of the sites to the original site.

Page and Brin first named their newly created search engine BackRub. However, later, they made a spelling change on the word googol and named this search engine Google. Googol stood for the number ten to the power of one hundred. With this name, they wanted to emphasize that people are offered a great source of information.

Google Company was Officially Established in 1998 The Google search engine initially used google.stanford.edu as the subdomain of Stanford University. He activated the google.com domain name, which he uses today, on September 15, 1997. On September 4, 1998, Google company was officially founded. The company is headquartered in their friend Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a PhD student at Stanford University, was hired as the first employee.

Google Broke a Record in the Number of Unique Visitors Google search engine gained popularity in a short time and became the choice of millions of internet users. In May 2001, Google broke a record in the number of unique visitors. Google's number of unique visitors reached 931 billion for the first time, an 8,4 percent increase from the year-ago figure of 1 million unique visitors.

Google operates as one of the largest technology companies in the world today. In addition to the search engine, it offers many services such as Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, Google Play Store and Google Drive. Additionally, the Android operating system is also developed by Google.

The doodle prepared to celebrate Google's 25th birthday was presented to internet users. Those who click on the doodle can learn interesting information about the history of Google.