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They met at Stanford University of California. They didn't agree on many topics, but soon their great minds would create something amazing.
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It began as a research project when they where PhD students at Stanford. They wanted to figure out how to relate a website's frequency of visitors to a search engine.
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Now they were known as Google, replacing BackRub. Google is a number with 100 zeroes, representing how many websites it can hold.
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Their first investor decided to write a check for $100,000 before Google Inc. even existed!
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These two Stanford students wanted to organize data in an easy and accessible way. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. It was founded in Menlo Park, California.
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Fellow grad student Craig Silverstein is employed at Google Inc.
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The Google office moves to Palo Alto with just 8 employees.
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They won the Technical Achievement and Peoples' Voice awards. Now that even more people knew about them, they were on a roll!
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Google images gave users access to millions of images online.
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This includes websites and images, marking a huge milestone. At this time, 6 billion was almost the world population.
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On April Fool's Day, Gmail is released by Google, but you needed an invite to join.
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Google Maps is a program to give people directions and see the world in Satellite pictures or by roads and traffic. On June 28, 2005 was the release of Google Earth.
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Google's new web browser had millions of people download it. It is one of the most used, if not the most used, web browser.
