953 nut 60,897 #1 Posted Monday at 10:48 AM National Google.com Day is on September 15. What better day to learn about the parent company that started it all than by celebrating with us here at National Today? Google is a big part of our lives. Google started solely as a search engine but now is a multinational technology company that offers many other services. The word ‘Google’ has become a verb. It’s pretty crazy to see how this search engine grew and is now embedded in our lives. The history of Google began in January 1996. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford University, started a research project to build a better search engine. They developed an algorithm called PageRank, which analyzed relationships between websites; it determined their relevance based on the number of links to other sites. When the search engine was first developed, one of its earlier names was “BackRub.” This name was changed to Google, a misspelling of the word ‘Googol,’ which stands for the number one with 100 zeros after it. This was chosen because Google provides a lot of information and demonstrates that information on the internet is endless. On September 15, 1997, Page and Brin registered the domain “google.com.” In 1998, after raising money from investors, Page and Brin formally incorporated their business in a room attached to a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. By December 1999, Google was in beta mode, with about 10,000 search queries per day being answered. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SylvanLakeWH 28,931 #2 Posted Monday at 01:01 PM A Haiku... When we are all gone No one will read the last search "Oh, just google it..." A limerick... There once was a species Who relied on google for thesis They went all in on AI Thinking all knowledge was in the reply Too late did they realized it was feces 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 29,539 #3 Posted Monday at 02:34 PM 1 hour ago, SylvanLakeWH said: They went all in on AI Thinking all knowledge was in the reply Too late did they realized it was feces A prediction from 1984 ? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
