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Originaly a research project, in 1996 Larry Page & Sergey Brin came up with a search engine that uses a new system to rank search terms.
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Brin & Page changed the company name to Goole, a misspelling of the word "googol", which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed my 100 zeros.
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Google begin selling ads associated with keywords, based on a combination of price bids and click throughs.
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Earth viewer, which later became Google Earth was purchased when Keyhole Inc who owned the technology was aquired.
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(verb) "search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet, typically using the search engine Google.
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Google pay $1.65 billion for YouTube.
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The number of unique visitors to google surpasses 1 billion.