Google Turns 10
Posted on September 15th, 2007 by dhirender
On the 10th anniversary of Google, some trivia:
- On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain name of “google.com.” The word is a variation of ‘googol,’ which refers to the number 10 to the power of 100, a term popularized by US mathematician Edward Kasner.
- Google was one year later, on September 7, 1998, in a household garage in northern California by Page and Brin.
- Google has become the most popular Internet search engine in the world outside of China, Japan and Russia, handling more than 500 million visits a day.
- In 2000 Google began to sell ads linked to key words.
- When Google went public in August 2004 its shared initially sold at 85 dollars. Today its shares are valued at 525 dollars, and Google has a stock market value worth some 164 billion dollars.
- In 2006 Google reached 13.4 billion dollars in revenue with profits of 3.7 billion dollars.
- In 2006 Google bought YouTube, the largest and most popular video exchange website, and soon after bought DoubleClick
- The company thrives on a culture of innovation: the best example is that it asks employees to dedicate 20 percent of their time to develop ideas for the company.
- Google currently has some 13,700 employees.
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