What is the name of the founder of Google. Transforming Googol into Google. What if it's not Google?

In 1998, countless users of the World Wide Web finally received the long-awaited effective search engine, namely, this year Google Inc. was officially registered.

Who among the multi-million army of Internet lovers has not heard of Google Who hasn't used this wonderful search engine at least once? Surely there are none. But not everyone knows what exactly the word “ Google" Word " Google" comes from the mathematical term " googol"(a number consisting of one followed by one hundred zeros). Of course, this designation is purely conditional, because in the entire Universe there is nothing equal in quantity googoloo. However, computer Google created just two human units. They are two peers, born in different parts of the world, but, fortunately, they met in the right place at the right time. Due to their innate modesty, their first and last names are mostly unknown to the general public, despite the worldwide fame of their amazing brainchild. So, meet: Sergey Brin And Larry Page- nice guys, computer geniuses and ordinary billionaires.

Sergey Brin (Russian roots)

Sergey Brin born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow. His parents belonged to the Jewish technical intelligentsia: his mother Evgenia was an engineer, and his father Mikhail was a gifted mathematician. But due to the latent anti-Semitism that reigned in the Soviet country in those years, Brin Sr. was unable to move up the career ladder. Therefore, when in the late 70s, Jewish families began to be released from the USSR abroad for permanent residence, the Brinov family was one of the first to leave the “country of developed socialism.” Later, Brin Sr. said about it this way: “Everyone loves their homeland, and we loved it too, but not all love is mutual”... The family’s path lay in the USA, where Mikhail had many mathematical acquaintances. Thus, Seryozha has already turned six years old on American soil.

The Breens adapted to the new place in different ways: the head of the family soon got a job as a teacher at the University of Maryland in the town of College Park; his wife became a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency; Grandma had the hardest time - for example, having to take an exam driver license gave her a real shock; and Seryozhka was the easiest of all - due to his young age and easy character. Seryozha inherited his father's talents, and therefore he was immensely bored at school: he considered the American curriculum primitive. He amazed teachers with many things, even printed out homework on a printer (it should be noted that in those days, even in the USA, family computers were rare, and Mikhail Brin gave his son a real Commodore 64 computer for his nine years). Only the grandmother, who with incredible efforts received the long-awaited car license in order to take her grandson to school, sincerely grieved: “What will happen to him, because Serezhenka has only computers in her head?!”

After school, Sergei received a bachelor’s degree “from his father” ahead of schedule at the University of Maryland and for further studies went to the center of the country’s best scientific minds, the famous Silicon Valley (whose name is not entirely correctly translated as Silicon) in California, filled to the brim with leading technical educational institutions institutions and high-tech companies.

It was here, at a very prestigious computer university - Stanford University - that a significant meeting of two talented young men took place, which became the beginning of the creation Google.

Lawrence Edward Page (American roots)

Lawrence Edward Page born March 26, 1973 in Lansing, Michigan, USA. His parents belonged to the American technical intelligentsia: his mother Gloria was a programming teacher at the University of Michigan, his father Carl Vincent was a professor of computer science (ibid.). Having similar genetic roots, Larry simply could not help but fall in love with computers. He, like his future partner, was also the only student at his school who brought his homework to in electronic format! But in those days in computer technology The era of punched cards still reigned...

Later, at the University of Michigan College of Technology, Page fully demonstrated his leadership inclinations and was even elected president of the honor society of American students in the field electronic technologies. It was here that he gained invaluable business skills and acquired the qualities of a real manager. His technical abilities also continued to develop, for example, from parts of a Lego constructor, a talented student assembled... a model inkjet printer! Having received his bachelor's degree, Larry immediately headed to the famous Stanford University.

Two units as one

Meanwhile Sergey Brin, led by the “sweet-voiced bird of youth,” did not at all overexert himself with scientific studies during his doctoral studies. The list of his chosen disciplines included dancing, gymnastics, and swimming. And when the father, trying to force his frivolous son to “come to his senses,” urged him to enroll in more advanced courses, he received the answer: “I’ve already signed up. To advanced swimming! However, the caring father worried in vain - Sergei was already captured by a new hobby, which gradually became the passion of his whole life. His name was " search engines».

In those days, information retrieval systems were very imperfect. On simple request whole mountains of links came in, arranged in a chaotic order. This could not satisfy users, especially such demanding ones as Brin. However, he created one similar program himself, for himself personally - it combed the Playboy website and automatically downloaded new photos of beauties to the computer of an enterprising young man.

It is to this period that the significant acquaintance of two peers dates back to. Although the very first meeting was clearly not a success: the lively, proud, ambitious and unyielding young bachelors argued until they were hoarse, got cocky, and shouted at each other. But very soon they hit on an all-consuming topic of common interest - search engines! These two magic words instantly turned yesterday's rivals into partners and friends. “We were interested in the search - the information that truly affects people’s lives,” both later recalled.

Collaboration began to boil. And already in 1996, the forerunner was created and launched within the university Google, called BackRub by the creators. The name can be translated as “you give me - I give you” (later it was renamed to PageRank). The essence of the innovation was that the links received as a result of the request were not submitted in any form, as in other systems, but in accordance with the number of links to them from other computer pages. That is, the customer received a list starting with the most popular (and most relevant to his desires) documents.

The revolutionary invention was quickly appreciated by colleagues. But the Stanford professors rebelled: the amount of traffic used by students reached alarming limits. But the inventors could no longer be stopped, and they began looking for investors in order to open their own business.

one + one=google

Venerable and experienced businessman Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of the Sun Microsystems corporation, imposingly puffing on a cigar, listened to the explanations of two disheveled young people about the advantages of the search engine they created for no more than a couple of minutes. “Sorry, but I'm in a hurry. What do you say your company is called?” - and he reached into his pocket for his checkbook. The tandem's amazement knew no bounds, because before that all potential sponsors did not want to hear about their creation. Having received a check for 100 thousand dollars a moment later, they were delighted and did not even immediately notice that it was written out to Google Inc., and not at all Google- a one followed by one hundred zeros, as they wanted to call their brainchild, implying an infinitely huge search base. Well, let it be Google, the main thing is that the first step has been taken! Having collected the rest of the required amount from relatives and friends, on September 7, 1998, they registered a new enterprise with a capital of one million dollars.

At first, the co-owners huddled in a garage that belonged to their friend Susan Wojcicki, and the company staff consisted of only 4 people. However, fame Google expanded at an extraordinary speed (all the proceeds went exclusively to business development, and not a penny for advertising). Within a year and a half, the enterprise turned into a profitable company. Due to the efficiency and enthusiasm of the creators, as well as unconventional methods of management and business, Google beat one competitor after another. The best evidence of triumph Google Inc. is that at the end of last year the newspaper's list of the world's top 100 largest brands Financial Times it took 1st place (total value - 66.43 billion dollars), ahead, by the way, in this indicator of competitors from Microsoft, as well as such monsters as General Electric, Coca-Cola And Marlboro.

The company’s tremendous successes have not at all spoiled the “technical intelligentsia” Larry and Sergei, despite the fact that their personal fortunes today amount to approximately $18 billion each. By the way, from the moment of transformation Google Inc. In the public company, both co-founders, as well as CEO Eric Schmidt, receive an annual salary of one dollar. Brin lives in a three-room apartment, drives a Toyota with an environmentally friendly engine, does gymnastics, rollerblades and enjoys roller hockey. Wears jeans, sneakers and sports jackets. Paige, on the other hand, is a huge roller hockey fanatic and lives just as modestly as her partner. Apart from his not very large three-room apartment, he has a great sense of humor, and it was he who created the famous company slogans: “You can be serious without a suit” and “Work should be a challenge, and challenges should be fun.”

By the way, about work. The office in the garage has long been forgotten, and the main office of the corporation is located, naturally, in the very heart of modern science, in Silicon Valley. And here everything is provided in order to make the work of staff easier, lift people’s spirits and thus increase their ability to work. Employees can enjoy sports competitions (primarily the extremely popular Google roller hockey), massage, piano music, free coffee and soft drinks. You can easily run into a dog or cat in the corridors of the building, because everyone is allowed to bring their pets to work. But what is most unusual: everyone is free to use 20% of their working time at their own discretion. If you want, count flies, but if you want, develop your own project. Amazingly, it is precisely these hours that account for the lion’s share of entered Google Inc. innovation!

Few find pairs

Until recently, offensively little was known about the personal life of our tandem. In general, morals in scientific circles are much more restrained than in secular society. And there’s no time for serious people to have affairs, they need to get busy! But suddenly last year unexpected news became known, and then a second, equally sensational one. Each found a life partner: first Sergei, and very soon Larry. Let down our secretive guys... our own favorite brainchild! No matter how hard they tried to keep changes in their personal lives secret, as soon as anyone curious dialed Google « Sergey Brin is getting married"and then the same regarding Larry Page, and all the information is before your eyes!

Computer geniuses found their life partners from their own environment. At the beginning of May 2007, a wedding took place in the Bahamas Sergei Brin With Anne Wojcicki, bioengineer. And they were introduced to Susan, who once rented out a garage for an office. Google Inc. Page did not lag behind his companion for long: in early December of the same year, still in the same Caribbean, he rented an entire island from his friend billionaire Richard Branson to perform a marriage ceremony with Lucy Southworth, a student at her native Stanford University. Looking at these two celebrations, one can once again be amazed at the closeness of destinies, the similarity of characters, preferences and life attitudes of both companions.

Google in numbers

Founders Google occupy 26th place in the list of the richest people on the planet. Each person’s personal fortune is $17.9 billion. The company employs more than 5,000 people.

The company allocates 1 percent of total profits to charity: the total over 10 years reaches half a billion dollars. Based on the results of the third quarter of 2007 Google showed an increase in revenue by 57% and net profit by 46% ($4.23 billion and $1.07 billion, respectively).

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Google is a search engine with additional tools and services.

We can say that Google.com is Sherlock Holmes with his card index, in which data on all the figures of the criminal world is laid out by first and last name, and he easily knows where and how to find any information. In addition, the detective will play the violin for you or entertain you with an interesting conversation. Naturally, the search engine finds not only information about criminals. Everything and about everything is available to him exclusively.

When did Google appear and who founded it?

The history of Google begins in 1998, when the search engine began to be used at Stanford University, where its founders, Larry Page (USA) and Sergey Brin (emigrant, born in the USSR), studied.

Both students were working on solving the problem of searching large data warehouses. At that time, search engines were already working, but the results of their work were unsatisfactory. The search was carried out by keywords, and spam was included in the results. The new system took into account backlinks. If there were a lot of them on the resource, this meant that the portal was relevant to the request and authoritative.

As an example, the developers took references in scientific circles. The more scientists refer to the person in question, the higher their status, the more authoritative the person himself becomes. This is how PR (PageRank) appeared - one of the indicators of ranking and weight of a page and the site as a whole, which raised the quality of search and generally made a fundamental turn in its algorithm.

Mathematicians asked the first users of Stanford to express their impressions and comments, according to which they modified the search engine.

What does the name mean

The initial word was the concept of Googol - 1 and 100 zeros after it. Initially, the new search engine was supposed to be called GooglePlex (10 to the power of googol), but the creators found it unmemorable and awkward to write. Therefore, we settled on the shortened version.

In 1998, the developers registered the company Google-Inc., which received a significant amount for development from one sponsor. With this money, they purchased servers that began to process the growing number of requests to Google.com.

How Google works and how it works

Google uses two important principles: document text analysis and incoming link counting.

Based on the text, link weight and all keys, the search engine determines the position of the resource in the search results. The search is carried out using a previously indexed database of reverse indexes. It also contains saved copies of pages, on the basis of which snippets are generated.

The PS will add the site to its index if the webmaster sends a link to it to the addurilka, or finds your web project via an incoming link from another resource. Backlinks are collected as each page is indexed.

Related Google services

• AdSense, AdWords – contextual advertising systems.
• YouTube is the most popular video hosting site.
• Chrome is a popular web browser.
• Analytics – a counter for analyzing web resource traffic.
• Google+ is a social network.
• Play – applications for mobile gadgets.
• Disk – data storage in the cloud.
• Mail – exchange of electronic letters.
• Photo – storage of photo albums, exchange of photos.
• Docs – work with documents, text editors, viewing and editing documents from anywhere in the world.
• Maps is a cartography system around the world with point objects.
• Calendar – event planner.
• Hangouts – online chat.
• Talk – messenger, messaging.

This is not a complete list. There is also a Translator, News, Notes, Website Hosting, Virtual Printer, Questions and Answers and much more.

Features of promotion on Google

Promotion in this search engine is different from Yandex. In general, both PS have their own characteristics and their sites are ranked differently.

• Google works a little faster (indexing, issuing, crawling by robot).
• Google takes into account the anchors of all links from the same text leading to the receiving page.
• Structured unique texts are necessary for any search engine.
• In Google, regions are countries, and in Yandex - cities and regions.
• Google highlights the weight of each page, while the Russian PS gives importance to the weight of the site as a whole.
• Google prefers the exact occurrence of the key query in the incoming link.
• Google stores all pages in its database. And Yandex filters out duplicate content and other low-quality documents.
• The Google database consists of a main and supplemental index. Documents included in supplemental are almost not included in the search.

Reasons for getting into supplemental

• Non-unique content.
• A small amount of text on the page.
• Meta tags are not specified, or they are not unique, or they consist of only one word.

Google's share in Russia is constantly growing. In recent years, a growth trend has emerged due to the release of mobile gadgets with a built-in OS, which by default links the user’s Google account for correct functioning. mobile device. Therefore, every optimizer should know about this system and the features of promotion in it.

Today, almost every Internet user knows Google. Its founder, Sergey Brin, a Jew by nationality, had long thought about the need for a discovery of this kind. His biography is a vivid example of the fact that even today it is quite possible to make a discovery and create a brilliant project.

Sergei’s biography originates in the USSR, so the Russian people can proudly say today that the creator of the unique Google system, Sergei Mikhailovich Brin, is our fellow countryman, a Russian. Sergei Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow into a family of mathematicians in 1973.

His mother, Evgenia, worked as an engineer, while his father was a gifted mathematician. However, in the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Brin experienced enormous inconvenience: hidden anti-Semitism posed obstacles to the talented mathematician. After graduating from Moscow State University, he was denied admission to graduate school, which prompted him to begin working “privately” on his Ph.D. thesis. Mathematicians were not allowed to go abroad to scientific conferences either. But here's the unknown reasons He was given a visa to travel to the United States by private invitation.

And at the end of the 70s of the last century, families who wanted to change their place of residence began to be released from the Soviet Union. One of the first to decide to leave the country was Mikhail Brin. He had many mathematician acquaintances in the USA, so the choice fell on this country. So the biography of six-year-old Sergei took a sharp turn: he turned from a Soviet subject into an American.

The beginning of the Breens' life in the USA

After the move, the father of the family settled at the University of Maryland in the small town of College Park. His wife got a job as a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency.

Sergey Brin, the future creator of Google, during his studies began to amaze teachers with completed homework assignments, which he printed out on home printer. Indeed, at that time, even in the United States, not everyone in the family had computers - it was a rare luxury. Sergei Brin owned a real Commodore 64 computer, which his father gave him for his ninth birthday.

Years of doctoral studies

After graduating from school, Sergei Brin received his education at the University of Maryland, where his father worked. With a bachelor's degree in his pocket, the future founder of Google moves to Silicon Valley, a place where the most powerful minds in the country are concentrated. The myriad of tech schools and high-tech companies in Silicon Valley provide a wide range of choices for those looking to improve their knowledge. Sergey Brin chooses a super-prestigious computer university from the entire mass of offers - this was Stanford University.

Anyone who didn’t know Brin well could be mistaken in believing that the future founder of Google was a “nerd” - Sergey, like most young students, preferred fun activities to boring doctoral studies. The main disciplines to which Sergey Brin devoted the lion's share of his time were gymnastics, dancing, and swimming. But, despite this, a sharp idea had already begun to swarm in the inquisitive brain, the name of which was “the Google search engine.

After all, a lover of the fascinating site “Playboy” was sorry for the time and effort spent “combing” it in order to look for something new. And, as they say, laziness is the very first reason for progress - and Sergey Brin created a program, independently and personally for his needs, which automatically found everything “fresh” on the site and downloaded this material to the PC of a resourceful young man.

A meeting of two geniuses that changed the entire Internet world

Here, at Stanford University, the meeting of the future founders of Google took place. Larry Page and Sergey Brin formed an excellent intellectual tandem that introduced a unique innovation to the Internet - the original Google search engine.

However, the first meeting did not bode well at all: both Sergey Brin and Larry Page were a match for each other - both proud, ambitious, uncompromising. However, at some point in their arguments and shouting, two magic words flashed - “search engines” - and the young men realized that this was their common interest.

We can say that this meeting became an important milestone in the destinies of both young people. And who knows, Sergei’s biography would have been expanded discovery of Google, wouldn't he meet Larry? Although today it is generally accepted that it is Sergey Brin who is the founder of Google, while undeservedly forgetting to mention Larry Page.

First search page

Meanwhile, Sergey Brin, together with Larry Page, now, having abandoned all youthful fun, spent days poring over their “brainchild”. And so, in 1996, a page appeared on the computer at Stanford University, where both young men studied, the predecessor of the now well-known Google search engine. The search page was called BackRub, which translated as “you to me, and I to you.” It was the scientific work of graduate students whose names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Later the search page became known as PageRank.

BackRub founder Sergey Brin kept a server with a hard drive in his dorm room. Its volume was equal to one terabyte or 1024 “gigs”, if translated into modern language geeks. The operating principle of BackRub was based on not just finding pages on the Internet upon request, but ranking them depending on how often other pages link to them and how often Internet users access them. Actually, this principle was subsequently developed in the Google system.

The future founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, became even more confident in their decision to continue working on improving the search system, because even this imperfect program began to be used by a huge number of people. For example, in 1998, about ten thousand users accessed this site every day.

However, the proverb that initiative should always be punished came to life at this time very inopportunely. Sergey Brin recalls that Stanford professors became indignant because the service began to consume most of the university’s Internet traffic. But the worst thing for teachers was not even this - the future creators of Google were accused of hooliganism!

The reason for everything was the imperfection of the system. And she “displayed” to everyone even university “closed” documents, access to which was strictly limited. At this time, the biography of the future founders of Google could well have received such a negative fact as expulsion from the university.

Turning Googol into Google

The young people were already developing their grand discovery, they even came up with the name of the company - Googol, which meant one followed by one hundred zeros. The meaning of this name was that the company would have a huge base, a huge number of users! But it became impossible to continue working on the university computer, so it was necessary to urgently look for investors.

As it turned out, it’s not enough to come up with a bright name for your company; you also need to be able to convince wealthy people to believe in your genius and decide to invest their capital. And here Sergey Brin and Larry Page could not find their passion - the majority of potential investors did not even want to talk about the company.

And suddenly the young people were surprisingly lucky: businessman Andy Bechtolsheim, who was among the founders of the Sun Microsystems corporation, decided to help them. However, he did not even listen to the confused speech of the young men, but somehow immediately believed in their genius and success.

Two minutes into the conversation, Andy took out his checkbook and began writing out a check for one hundred thousand dollars, inquiring about the name of the company. And only when they went outside, the young people discovered a “mistake”: their investor, due to his carelessness, casually renamed their brainchild, replacing “Googol” with the company name “Google Inc.”

Now the partners faced a new problem: in order to receive money from the check, they had to urgently register the Google company. Sergey Brin, together with Larry Page, took an academic leave from the university and began urgently calling friends and relatives in order to obtain some finances to achieve their goal. It took a whole week, and on September 7, 1998, the birth of Google was officially registered with a million-dollar capital in its account.

The success of a search engine is the success of its creators

At first, Google had a staff of four people. Sergey Brin was a leading founder of Google. Most of the finances were spent on business development - there was practically nothing left for advertising. However, in 1999, all major media outlets were buzzing about the successful Internet search engine, and the number of Google users increased many times over. Sergey Brin and Larry Page noted that Google search was no longer limited to a few powerful servers - Google was supported by several thousand simple personal computers.

In the summer of 2004, the company's shares reached their highest price on the stock exchange. Sergei and Larry were at the peak of their success.

From that moment on, Sergei Brin experienced a dramatic revolution in his biography: he and his friend-companion turned into billionaires. Each of them today has a net worth of over $18 billion.

Work in a company

Today, the company has a head office in the very center of Silicon Valley. The comfort in which employees work here is shocking to the most democratically structured companies and corporations.

For example, employees can play roller hockey on Saturdays right in the company's parking lot, and breakfasts and lunches in the cafe for employees are prepared by well-known qualified chefs invited there. Hot coffee and a variety of soft drinks are provided to employees absolutely free of charge. They can also use the services of massage therapists during the working day.

This fact may seem surprising: workplace staff are allowed to bring their own pets. Therefore, in the company’s offices you can see cats, dogs, rats and hamsters, and even iguanas and other reptiles.

StoryGoogle began in 1996 as a research project by two Stanford students - Larry Page And Sergei Brin. Colleagues and friends at that moment were working on the SDPL project - the Stanford Digital Library. They developed the most convenient, universal digital library, which was supposed to be unified.

The official history of Google as a company began September 4, 1998, when Page and Brin officially registered their creation in their friend Susan Wojcicki's garage in California.

Brief background

For 2 years from the start of joint activities at Stanford and before Google registration Inc. Larry and Sergey have done a lot of work in the IT industry. One more search engine was not enough, a breakthrough was needed, and friends did it.

In 1996, Larry Page was choosing a topic for his dissertation. His choice, on the advice of Professor Terry Winograd, fell on the clarification and structuring of influence external links to one resource or another. This became the prototype of Page Rank (PR), one of the factors thanks to which Google gained leadership in its field.

BackRub

After Larry decided on a topic for his dissertation, he began a scientific project that went down in history as “ BackRub” . It was at this moment that Sergey Brin joined him.

Page Rank

In March 1996, for the first time since home page Larry at Stanford, a search robot began indexing pages of the World Wide Web.

In order to better display the results of this indexing, friends developed an algorithm Page Rank, which took into account the authority of the page under study based on the number and quality of external hyperlinks to it from other pages.

The beginning of a unique search engine

Realizing that they were getting better results than other search engines thanks to their algorithm, Page and Brin actually made a revolution in the history of search engines. This is what gave birth to Google, a world-famous company.

At the beginning of its work, the Google search engine was located on the Stanford University website at - google.stanford.edu

Domain name google. com was registered September 15, 1997. "Googol" is a number equal to one followed by one hundred zeros.

Attitude to advertising

Colleagues did not want to turn their brainchild into a billboard with all sorts of pop-up windows and graphic advertising banners. They even wrote a scientific paper on this topic in 1998.

Until now, Google's interface is the most simple and “easy”, allowing it to load faster in the user's browser. From advertising in search results you can find on this moment only text advertisements (contextual advertising based on keywords), which first appeared on the search engine in 2000.

The beginning of the history of Google Inc.

Having received the first funding from Andy Bechtolsteim at the rate of $100,000, Larry Page and Sergey Brin officially registered Google Inc. – the history of the beginning of the number 1 search engine in the world began on September 4, 1998 and continues to this day.

By the end of that year, Google's crawler had indexed more than 60 million pages on the Internet. Its advantage over analogues has become generally recognized. At the peak "dot-com bubble" In the stock market, Google already had a huge lead over its competitors, being a private company.

Sales attempt

In 1999, Larry and Sergei realized that the company had so absorbed them that it was clearly interfering with their studies at the university. It was decided to sell to Google for 1 million dollars. The offer was made George Bell, who runs Excite, but he backed out of the deal.

Public IPO of Google Inc.

One of the significant days in the history of Goggle Inc. became August 19, 2004, when the company entered the NASDAQ stock exchange and became public.

Google offered investors 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. The shares were sold through an online auction of a unique format, organized by the banks that underwrote the transaction. Morgan Stanley And Credit Suisse.

IPO proceeds of $1.67 billion meant Google's market capitalization was more than $23 billion. The vast majority of the shares remained in the company's control, and many of its employees instantly became millionaire stockholders. Yahoo!, a Google competitor, also benefited because it owned 8.4 million. Google shares before the IPO. As of February 2014, the corporation's capitalization amounted to over 400 billion dollars!

In addition to being sold on the American market (NASDAQ stock exchange) under the ticker GOOG, the corporation is sold on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and has the ticker GGQ1 there.

Reorganization at Alphabet

After the Google Reorganization Alphabet in October 2015, all shares of the first were converted into shares of the second. They continue to trade on NASDAQ as GOOGL and GOOG ( class A- GOOGL, - with one vote, and class C- GOOG, - no voting rights).

Owners

There are also promotions class B, giving their owners 10 votes. The only holders of this class of shares are Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as the former CEO of the company Eric Schmidt.

Google services and acquisitions

Over its history, Google has acquired many companies, some of which have become the basis of the corporation's modern services. Some of them became Google subsidiaries, and some of them became independent branches.

Here are some of them:

GooglePlanetEarth– a service based on the startup Keyhole, Inc., purchased in 2004, whose product was then called Earth Viewer. The service stores photographs of our planet taken from a satellite.

YouTube– the most popular video hosting and search engine No. 3 in the world, purchased by the corporation in 2006 for $1.65 billion.

GoogleVoice– made on the foundation of the purchased company GrandCentral. The transaction amount, which took place in 2007, was $50 million.

Other popular services and products

Among Google's many developments, the most popular are Gmail(Post service), Google Maps(the most recognized integrated application is Google Maps), GoogleDocs(a worthy cloud replacement office programs from ), browser GoogleChrome with a wonderful bookmark synchronization function, operating system Android for smartphones and many others.

Partnerships and sponsorships

In addition to its own developments and acquisitions of companies for its own needs, Google’s management is always open to cooperation and even sponsorship with other companies in a variety of fields of science and production: ecology, space exploration, medicine, IT, automobile production (), smartphones, etc.

Today, Google, under the wing of Alphabet, is one of the leading companies in the IT industry. The history of Google continues and there may be many more ahead of us useful services and products of this company.

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The founder of Google, Sergey Mikhailovich Brin, was born in Moscow on August twenty-first, 1973. His father, Mikhail Izrailevich, worked at the Moscow Institute of Mathematical Economics, and his mother, Evgenia Brin, held the position of engineer at one of the capital’s research institutes. Due to anti-Semitic sentiments that flourished in the scientific circles of the former USSR, the family was forced to emigrate to the United States. There, Brin's father began working at the University of Maryland, and his mother at NASA.

The future founder of Google graduated primary school in the small town of Adelphi. He received his secondary education in another city - Greenbelt. His father noticed young Brin's inclination towards mathematical sciences and at the age of nine gave him his first Personal Computer. After graduating from high school, Google founder Sergei Brin became a student at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Maryland (in 1990). In 1993 he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science.

After completing his studies at the university, Sergei becomes a fellow of the National Science Foundation. That same year he tries to enter a school where he is rejected. But the future founder of Google does not despair and continues his studies, where two years later he receives and continues his scientific career.

Google placed its first data center in a rented garage. Friends, acquaintances and relatives of the company’s founders invested in the ambitious project. In 1998, Google founder Sergey Brin officially registered the Google company. In the same year, a joint work was published that described the basic principles of the new search engine engine. Even now, this work is considered one of the most deeply revealing of this topic.

High search results helped popularize new system. In 1999, the company began to attract large investors. The founder of Google noted that the main advantage of his search engine is its focus on quality search, and not on advertising. It was Sergei who came up with the company’s credo: “Have no evil intentions!” Initially, his project was not intended to be commercial. Nevertheless, the system that regulated the selection of advertising in accordance with the result of the request began to generate more than decent income. In 2001, Google founder Sergey Brin took over as the company's president of technology affairs.

Currently Google time is not only the most popular search engine, but also an innovator in technology and business.