Google

Google was established between 1997-1999 by two philosophy students from Stanford, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The name Google is based on the mathematical term which symbolizes the number 1 with 100 zeroes to its right.

The company developed the technology of page rank that grants preference to a given Internet page according to the number of links made to it on other sites.

Google’s service is made through its site, www.google.com, and other sites with local geographical endings. The company serves 67 different countries in 87 languages, from Ukrainian to Zulu.

Google is the most popular search engine on the Net today. The search engine has an index of over eight billion Internet pages that can be fully retrieved and internally searched, and is visited by 11.5 million visitors a day who present over 200 million inquiries. Google also offers the following services:

A Google tool-bar, translation services, discussion groups, sitemaps, G-mail, as well as an internal search engine called Google Desktop.

As of 2004, Google receives 80% of all search engine inquiries.

On August 19, 2004, Google went public on Wall street, with an initial market worth of 23.1 billion dollars.