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Who created Google?. The very popular search engine called Google was invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 at Standford university while doing their Ph.D. Google was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
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Who created Google? The very popular search engine called Google was invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 at Standford university while doing their Ph.D. Google was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100zeros The name “Google” means the big amount of information that a search engine has to go Through. The young version The old version
What is Google? • Google began as a research project on building a better “problem solving” for web search engines. • Search engine is a software system that is designed to search for information on the www (World Wide Web). Results can be information on web pages, images, etc.. • Started in 1998, Google has grown into the most popular search engine on the planet. • Along with the search engine, Google also does Gmail, Google Docs, Google translator, You Tube!
Why is Google a successful business? • Every body from children to old people, in the world uses google to find information. • Any information at all you want to know you can find from google. • It’s easy to use unless you are 2 years old! • You get instant information but some times it is slow because of the internet. ”organisethe world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" Larry & Sergey
How many shareholders do they have? • The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. • The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalisation of more than $23 billion. 271 million shares remained under the control of Google. • Google employees became instant paper millionaires!