Origin of Google

The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry and Sergey Brin to market Google search which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin student at Stanford University in California developed a search algorithm at first known as "Backrub" in 1996 with the help of Scot Hassan and Alan Sternberg. The search engine soon proved a successful and expanding company moved several times finally setting at a mountain view in 2003. This mart of the phase of rapid growth with the company making its initial public offering in 2004 and quickly becoming one of the world's largest media companies. The company launched Google news in 2002, Gmail in 2004, Google maps in 2005, Google Chrome in 2008, and the social network known as Google Plus in 2011(which was shut down in 2019 April) in addition to many products. In 2015 Google became the main subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet inc. 

The search engine went through numerous updates in attempts to combat search engine optimization abuse, provide dynamic updating of results and make the indexing system rapid and flexible. The search result started to be personalized in 2005 and later Google suggests auto-completion was introduced. Form 2004 universal search provided all types of content not just text content in search results.

Google has engaged in a partnership with NASA, AOL, Sun microsystems, new corporations, Sky UK and others. the company set up a charitable offshoot, Google.org in 2005. Google was involved in a 2006 legal dispute inUS over the court order to disclose URLs and search strings and has been the subject of tax avoidance investigations in the UK.

Google is a variant of Googol, choose to suggest a very large number. Page and Brian write in their first paper in PageRank"Google represented 10^100. It is the most visited on the website in the world.

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Ibrar Ul Haque - Dec 1, 2019, 10:58 PM - Add Reply

Good sir

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