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Google started out as a research project by two college students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford College, in California. The two students theorized about a better way to access the internet and all of its websites shown. They started the process of the project by writing algorithms and sharing the details of their new "profound" search engine.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin decide to name their new company Backrub. When Brin searches up Googol, a mathematical quantity focusing on a number 1 with 100 zeros behind, he makes a spelling mistake and instead proceeds to search up "Google". They decide that that is their new name for their company.
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In June, 2000, it was announce that Google would become the default search engine provider for Yahoo.
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Google, having needed some funds for some of its new creations, decided to sell off shares of the company for $85 each. Google also received some money from many angel investors including Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder.
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Google buys and joins up with Youtube for $1.65 billion
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Google and Youtube finalize their deal together
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Google reached an agreement to acquire Double Click for $3.1 billion, transferring to Google's valuable relationships that DoubleClick had with Web publishers and advertising agencies
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At this point in Google's history, many started to see Google as a company valuable to the efforts of others. Google started to handle approximately 3 billion searches every day. To handle the work more efficiently, Google built 11 data centers around the world with several thousand servers in each.
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Google made its largest-ever deal to date when it announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. This purchase was made in part to help Google gain Motorola's considerable patent portfolio on mobile phones and wireless technologies, to help protect Google in its ongoing patent disputes with other companies, mainly Apple and Microsoft and to allow it to continue to freely offer Android
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Google reached$ 50 billion, in annual revenue.
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Sundar Pichai replaces Larry Page as the CEO of Google
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Google starts operating 70 offices in more than 40 countries
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