Five Horizons

More than a decade ago, in January of'96 to be more exact, Larry Page and Sergey Brin the founders of Google had joined forces to create a search engine called BackRub which, given its special ability to analyze back links linking a particular website. Thanks to innovative thinking of Larry, who built a functional office printer from Legos, was given the task of creating a new environment of servers that use common computer instead of large and expensive servers.

A year later, () and then borrow the new department's computers for the cluster of search engine, the reputation of BackRub was growing, thanks to its new system of analyzing links to the sites.

1998

After buying a terabyte of disk managed to mount its own server farm in the bedroom of Larry, who became the first data center of Google. Already with the algorithm developed by Google and baptized PageRank - in honor of its creator Larry Page, they are given the task of call to investors, among which highlights David Filo, founder of Yahoo!, Who will advise them to lift the business for them them ... and when it is big enough and scalable, told talk again. Even the CEO of another portal While we say 80% as good as our competition, it will be enough. Our users do not care whether the search results.

Touched by an Angel

Without being able to interest portals search of the time, Larry and Sergey decided to water thrown on their own. Only thing they needed was a little cash to move out of the bedroom - and pay with credit cards topadas which had bought the terabyte of memory. So I wrote her business plan, they forgot the Ph.D. and went in search of an investor. The first visit was with a friend of a member of the faculty.

Andy Bechtolsheim, a founder of Sun Microsystems, gave a demo to view and immediately knew about Google had potential. Although I had curiosity to know more, had the short time that day, so that instead of discussing all the details you better do a check?.

The check was made on behalf of Google Inc. for $ 100,000. I think such a small investment dilemma, legally Google Inc. Does not exist, so there was no way to deposit the check. The check remained for two weeks in the drawer of the desk of Larry, while both were looking for ways to create the company and receive more investments from family, friends and acquaintances. At the end of the day managed to collect almost one million dollars.

A Sept. 27, 1998, Google Inc. opened its doors in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control, as was the door of the garage of a friend who will sublease the space to house the three members of the new corporation.

At that time Google.com, still in beta, was receiving 10,000 searches a day. The press began to realize the new site with the excellent results of searches. In December, PC Magazine named Google one of the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines for 1998. Google was born!

There is no other search engine in the world, for these 9 years of innovations and services, Happy Birthday Google!

Via | History of Google

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