Google's History
Spring of 1995:
Sergey Brin (then 23 years) and Larry Page (24), cofounders by Google and now president and CEO, in an act known to Stanford University for organizing a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science.
Fall of 1995:
Larry and Sergey start working in a 'Digital Library Project' at Stanford University. Larry Page, with experience in web design and the title of Electrical Engineer, and Sergey Brin, an expert in data processing and Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, begin to create an algorithm for finding data. This technology will become later in the heart that will run on Google.
Larry Page the name given to this technology was' PageRank '. In his personal website of Stanford University, 1997 crash in a presentation that explains: "PageRank: Bringing Order to the Web.
January of 1996:
Begin to develop a search engine called BackRub. This name was given because the greater ability of this search engine is to analyze the 'back links' (links pointing to a page).
As indicated in its description, Backrub is written in Python and Java (including Larry Page paste any questions in the 'newsgroups'), and runs on several Sun Ultra machines with Linux and Intel Pentium. The database is housed on a Sun Ultra II computer with 28GB hard disk.
If you have any doubts about what is the search engine, and is not answered in their FAQ, you can call (415) 723-3154 and ask for Larry. The first users are students and professors from Stanford, who enjoy the precision with which the search engine finds data on the web.
1997: 'Backrub' se transforma en 'Google'.
This peculiar name given by its similarity to the word 'googol,' which in English is the name given to the'10 figure increased to 100 '(a one followed by 100 zeros). They already have 24 million pages indexed. Much earlier, already had capacity problems on their hard drives, and have had to devise ingenious Lego based, like this.
In the early days of Google (in the domain google.stanford.edu), its design is even more austere and will be later. This old version will include photographs of the equipment they use.
1997: Larry and Sergey have registered the domain 'google.com'.
They have also made known its technology to the 'Office of Technology Licensing "(OTL) at Stanford University, which is responsible for contacting various Internet companies that may be interested in Google. version will include photographs of the equipment they use.
January 1998:
Sergey and Larry did not like any of the tenders received, either by being economically low, or because they will not develop the technology correctly. Therefore, be they who decide to create their own company.
That's when Larry Page's room became the new home of Google, carrying all equipment next to his bed. Sergey Brin's room, located next to Larry, became the finance office.
Google is still indexing pages quickly, and Larry and Sergey require much more capacity on their hard drives. They have to buy a terabyte, and finally manage to buy several hard drives sale, all for $ 15,000.
Despite the 'fever of the dot-com' in those days, Larry and Sergey can not find an investor who financed Google, and have to get all the money from their families and close friends. Meanwhile, had abandoned his PhD in Stanfor
That's when Larry Page's room became the new home of Google, carrying all equipment next to his bed. Sergey Brin's room, located next to Larry, became the finance office.
Google is still indexing pages quickly, and Larry and Sergey require much more capacity on their hard drives. They have to buy a terabyte, and finally manage to buy several hard drives sale, all for $ 15,000.
Despite the 'fever of the dot-com' in those days, Larry and Sergey can not find an investor who financed Google, and have to get all the money from their families and close friends. Meanwhile, had abandoned his PhD in Stanfor
Summer of 1998:
In the porch of the house of a common friend, the professor from Stanford University David R. Cheriton, Sergey and Larry know Andy Bechtolsheim (Sun Microsystems co-founder and vice president of Cisco Systems), begin to talk about Google. After thirty minutes, they signed a check for $ 100,000 (later they signed another of equal size) in the name of 'Google Inc'. "Basically the kids need to test machines and servers for its new concept, and to pay lawyers who will assist with legal issues," said Bechtolsheim later. "And I wanted to be sure of the company."
However, 'Google Inc.' as such, does not exist, and in order to cash the check (which is two weeks on the table for Larry), they have to find a local, and found a new company: "Google Inc. '.
September 1998:
Google Inc. manages to collect several thousand dollars more, thanks to Professor Cheriton and Ram Shriram, a former manager of Netscape. And the company opened its doors in a garage that a friend of Larry Serget and rent them in Menlo Park, California. Quickly install multiple telephone lines, cable modem, a DSL line, and one parking space for your first employee, Craig Silverstein (now Director of Technology for Google). 25 million pages are indexed, and Google received ten thousand queries per day. The magazine 'PC Magazine' includes in its list of "Top 100 Web Sites" 1998.
En la página web de 'About Google' de este mes, aparecen multitud de referencias sobre todo lo que rodea a Google: las 3 personas que trabajaban en aquel momento, toda la gente que les estaba ayudando, el software y el hardware que utilizaban, las colaboraciones, ...
February of 1999:
The plan amounts to 8 people, answered 500,000 queries per day, moving to new offices in Palo Alto, and signed his first contract with RedHat, which begins to provide the Linux operating system from Google's servers. Meanwhile, continue with your marketing campaign: word of mouth.
