Google Turns 21 and Celebrates with a Doodle

Google completes its current doodle on September 21, 1998, the 21st anniversary of its founding.

September 27, 1998 was the first day that Internet users could search for what they wanted through the search engine.

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Google launched in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they both did their Ph.D. at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

While conventional search engines ranked their results by counting how many times search terms appeared on the page, the two of them created a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites. They named the new PageRank technology, which determined the relevance of a website to the number and importance of the pages that lead back to it.

They named their search engine Google. The word “Google”, according to the relevant Wikipedia entry, came from an anagram of the word “googol” (name originally chosen by Page), the mathematical term introduced by Milton Sirota for the number 10100 that reads: “1 followed from 100 zeros “. With this term, Google wants to indicate the company’s mission to organize the vast amount of information on the Internet.

Google initially ran the Stanford University website with the domains google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu.

The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997. In mid-1998, they managed to raise $ 1 million from investors, relatives and friends to create Google on September 4, 1998.

One of the first investors was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. It was originally based on a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. In 1999, it received a turnover of $ 25 million.

The company followed a rapid development especially when it became the official search engine from Yahoo!, one of the most popular sites. In mid-1999, it processed 500,000 searches per day, and in 2004 it reached 200 million searches per day.

Market research showed that in April 2007, Google Inc. took the lead as the most famous company in the world, displacing Microsoft Corp.

Source: Google