Google is an multinational American technology company. It specializes in Internet related services and products, which includes Search engine, online advertising, Software, Hardware, Cloud computing.
Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D students at Stanford university in California.
Google.com is the most visited website worldwide. Several other Google-owned websites also are on the list of most popular websites, including YouTube and Blogger. On the list of most valuable brand, Google ranked second by Forbes and fourth by Interbrand.
Top Ten history and facts about google are :-
1.Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
2.In the initial days the new search engine was nicknamed as "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.
3. The name Google is derived from the term 'googol'. A googol is a 1 with 100 zeroes behind it!
4. The domain name www.google.com was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of Susan Wojcicki [CEO of YouTube].
5.On August 19, 2004, Google became a public company via an initial public offering.The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. Shares were sold in an online auction.
6. On November 13, 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock.
7.In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed one billion for the first time.
8. In January 2010, Google released Nexus One, the first Android phone under its own brand.
9.Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet.
10. In June 2005, Google was valued at nearly $52 billion, making it one of the world's biggest media companies by stock market value.
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