2. Google, the leading search engine worldwide, was founded in 1998 by Stanford
University graduate students Larry Page and Sergei Brin.
3. A googol is the large number 10100
; that is, the digit 1 followed by
100 zeroes:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
4. This logo was used during the developing stage at
Stanford University. Google was, in fact, originally
named BackRub.
6. PC Magazine named Google as one of its Top 100
Web Sites for 1998.
Google served over 10,000 queries a day and quickly
gained a reputation as a trustworthy source of
information. By 1999, it was serving 500,000
queries a day.
In 2000, Google announced the first billion-URL
index, effectively making Google the largest search
engine in the world.
Term "Google" became so renowned that the
American Dialect Society named it as the most
useful word of 2002.
2006, the Oxford English Dictionary added "Google"