Google began in January 1996 as a
research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students
at Stanford University in California.
While conventional search engines
ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the
page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships
between websites. They called
this new technology PageRank, where a
website's relevance was determined by the number of pages, and the importance
of those pages, that linked back to the original site.A small search engine
called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services designed by Robin Li was, since 1996, already exploring a similar
strategy for site-scoring and page ranking. The
technology in RankDex would be patented and
used later when Li founded Baidu in China.
Page and Brin originally
nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system
checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.
Eventually, they changed the name
to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the
number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the
search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people. Originally, Google ran under the
Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu.
The domain name for Google was
registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September
4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki) garage
in Menlo Park,
California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as
the first employee.
In May 2011, the number of
monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 1 billion for the first time, an
8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931 million).
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