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Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, Sergey, 21, is told to show him around.) They disagree about most everything during this first meeting. Reason: Uh, this is probobly the most important thing to happen to google. If they hadnt met, google would'nt be here.
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BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year – eventually taking up too much bandwidth. The site starts becoming soo populer that they decide to get a different name. Reason: I don't think that backrub is catchy enough to become that popular. So changing would be very good.
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Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google – a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. Reason: The choosing of google is one of the most important names in history. Thats why you dont hear. "Backrub it".
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Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn’t exist yet – a company called Google Inc. Reason: Without that money, they might have never left Stanford.
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Early press reports and reviews of the Google search engine are positive. Reason: This might have convinsed a lot of new users to use it.
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Google.com is available in 26 languages. Reason: Makes google more popular through the forigen countries.
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They launch Gmail on April Fool’s Day. (At the time, you needed an invitation to get an account.) Reason: So more people can get email. And emails from google.
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Google Maps goes live. Now you can creep on your friends in whole new dimentions. Reason: ow there is a really popular gps and map provider. Making people branch off into the actual site.
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Google.cn, a local domain version of Google, goes live in China. Reason: Google has a couple billion more users.
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Their first downloadable iPhone app, featuring My Location and word suggestions for faster mobile searching, debuts with the launch of the Apple 3G iPhone Reason: All of the Iphone users now have instant acsess to googel.
