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Larry Page met Sergey Brin at Stanford. They had many disagreements when they first met. They were the founders of Google.
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BackRub is a search engine made by Larry Page. There was too much bandwidth to suit the university.
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Larry and Sergey decided that BackRub needed a new name so they started brainstorming. They came up with Google because it is aplay word on "googol" a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. They use this because it reflects their mission to organize a infinate amount of information.
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Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check of $100,000 to an entity that did not exist yet called Google Inc.
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They set up a workplace at Susan Wojcicki’s garage. It is located at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
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They outgrow the garage and move to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees.
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Google wins their first Webby Awards which is voted by the users and judges.
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Eric Schmidt is named chairman.
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We offered AOL Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
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We acquired Pyra Labs. They created Bloggers
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Their new search index hits 6 Billion. It also includes 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.
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Google moved to 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View. Their 800+ employees can work in a campus enviroment .
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They bought Youtube for 1.65 Billion in stocks.
