At that time, this project was called BackRub, because the system needed to check backlinks to estimate the importance of the website.
Convinced that the page that gets the most links from other highly relevant websites must be the most relevant page, Page and Brin decided to test it as part of their research, which laid the foundation for their search engine.
On1September 7th, 998, they formally established Google in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.
Before moving to "Googleplex" later,1February, 1999, the company first moved into the office at 165, University Street, Palo Alto, California, where many famous new technology companies in Silicon Valley gathered.
Google search engine has won Internet users with its simple and clean page design and the most relevant search results.
Advertisements are sold in the form of keywords, so that they are only interested in the end users. In order to make the page design sustainable and fast, advertisements appear in the form of words.
This concept of selling advertisements by keywords was originally developed by Overture (the original Goto).
When most internet companies closed down, Google has been quietly developing steadily and began to make profits.
In September of 20001year, PageRank, Google's web rating mechanism, obtained a US patent.
The patent was officially awarded to Stanford University, and Lawrence Page was listed as the inventor in the document.
In February, 2003, Google acquired Pyra Lab, the owner of Blogger, a leading blog network service pioneer.
It seems that this contradicts Google's mission.
However, this actually consolidated the company's ability to improve the search speed of Google news and the search relevance of blog posts.
At the peak of early 2004, 80% of the search requests on the World Wide Web were handled through its website and its client websites such as Yahoo, AOL, CNN and Google.
In February 2004, Google's share dropped a little, because Yahoo gave up Google's search technology and decided to develop its own search engine.
Google's code of conduct is to refuse to do all kinds of evil. Their websites often contain humorous functions, such as their icons changing humorously at specific times.
Many people speculate that Google is interested in Yahoo. The response is that with the personal information collected from Orkut, Gmail and Froogle, Google will launch personalized search in the next step. In fact, Google Labs has a personalized search test page on its website.
On July 19, 2005, Google announced that it would set up a research and development center in China.
65438+On February 20th, 2005, Google announced that it would spend $ 10 billion to acquire a 5% stake in AOL, an Internet service provider.
In June 2006, Google acquired YouTube, an audio-visual content sharing website, for $654.38+65 million, which was the largest acquisition in Google's history.
10 On June 29th, Google bought the domain name "G" from China 265 Network Company for about US$ 20 million, making it the shortest domain name registered in history.
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