2. What is google
Google is the world's most popular search engine. It
began as a search project in 1996 by Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, who were two Ph.D. students at Stanford
University. They developed a search engine algorithm
that ranked Web pages not just by content and
keywords,
3. INTRODUCTION
Larry Page
c. 1973 • East Lansing,
Michigan
Entrepreneur
Sergey Brin
August 21, 1973 • Moscow,
Russia
Entrepreneur
4. HISTORY
. Everyone knows the name Google. Whether young or
old, computer smart or not this name will pop up in
any conversation about computers.
Google has created some very impressive milestones of
its time and continues to grow rapidly every day.
It all started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in
Stanford. Larry was 22 and a graduate of University of
Michigan was there considering attending the school
. And low and behold Sergey, who was 21, was there to
show him around. Talk about a match made in heaven!
5. Cont……
calling it Google.
The name comes from a mathematical term for
the number 1 followed by 100 zero’s
. The use of the term reflects their mission to
organize a seemingly infinite amount of
information on the web.
6. HISTORY
• Google began in March 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin,
Ph.D. students at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital
• . Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was “to develop the enabling technologies
for a single, integrated and universal digital library
• ." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal
agencies.
• [2][3][4][5]In search for a dissertation theme, Page considered—mong other things—
exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web understanding its
link structure as a huge graph.[6]
• His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to pick this idea (which Page later
recalled as "the best advice I ever got"[7]) and Page focused on the problem of
finding out which web pages link to a given page
• , considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information
about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).[6] In his
research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a
fellow Stanford Ph.D. student supported by a National Science Foundation
Graduate Fellowship
7. • By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about
60 million pages.[21] The home page was still
marked "BETA", but an article in Salon.com
already argued that Google's search results were
better than those of competitors like Hotbot or
Excite.com, and praised it for being more
technologically innovative than the overloaded
portal sites (like Yahoo!, Excite.com, Lycos,
Netscape's Netcenter, AOL.com, Go.com and
MSN.com) which at that time, during the growing
dot-com bubble, were seen as "the future of the
Web", especially by stock market investors.
8. Financing and initial public offering
• The first funding for Google as a company was secured on August 1998 in
the form of a $100,000USD contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-
founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet
exist.[30]
• On June 7, 1999, a round of equity funding totalling $25 million was
announced;[31] the major investors being rival venture capital firms Kleiner
Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.[30]
• While Google still needed a lot of funding for their further expansion, Brin
and Page were hesitant to take the company public even though that
would basically solve most of their financial issues. They were not ready to
give up their control over Google. After borrowing the $25 million venture
capital money from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital,
Sequoia forced Brin and Page to hire a CEO or else they would take back
that borrowed $12.5 million. Finally, Brin and Page gave in and hired Eric
Schmidt as Google’s first CEO in March 2001 and the company went public
three years later
9. In October 2003, while discussing a possible
initial public offering of shares (IPO), Microsoft
approached the company about a possible
partnership or merger.[33] However, no such
deal ever materialized. In January 2004,
Google announced the hiring of Morgan
Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange
an IPO. The IPO was projected to raise as
much as $4 billion
10. GROWTH
• In October 2003, while discussing a possible
initial public offering of shares (IPO), Microsoft
approached the company about a possible
partnership or merger.[33] However, no such
deal ever materialized. In January 2004,
Google announced the hiring of Morgan
Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange
an IPO. The IPO was projected to raise as
much as $4 billion
