Global search engine, Google, is marking its 25th birthday!
Google describes itself as “the largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, video sharing platform, photo and cloud storage,” among others.
A business that started as a PhD thesis of two colleagues, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, soon blossomed into global phenomenon that it is today.
According to its Wiki entry, the founders called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google.
“The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number one (1), followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
Speaking on its quarter-century birthday, Google says, “And while here at Google we’re oriented towards the future, birthdays can also be a time to reflect.” It then urges users to “Let’s take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago.”
Says Google, “By fate or luck, doctoral students Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in Stanford University’s computer science program in the late ‘90s. They quickly learned they shared a similar vision: make the World Wide Web a more accessible place.
“The pair worked tirelessly from their dorm rooms to develop a prototype for a better search engine. As they made meaningful progress on the project, they moved the operation to Google’s first office — a rented garage.
“On September 27, 1998, Google Inc. was officially born.”
“Much has changed since 1998 — including our logo as seen in today’s Doodle — but the mission has remained the same: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” it added.
Google thanks users “for evolving with us” over the past 25 years, adding, “We can’t wait to see where the future takes us, together.”
Billions of people from all over the globe use Google to search, connect, work, play.
