Google celebrates it's 23rd Birthday today (Sep 27th, 2021)

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Today, Google doodle celebrates, the 23rd birthday of Google, and this video explains the history of google. 

Google began in January 1996, as a research project, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, when they were both PhD students, at Stanford University in California. 

The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the original lead programmer, who wrote much of the code, for the original Google Search engine. But, he left before Google was officially founded as a company. Hassan went on to pursue a career in robotics, and founded the company, Willow Garage, in 2006. 

Page and Brin originally nicknamed the new search engine, "BackRub", because, the system checked backlinks, to estimate the importance of a site. 

Eventually, they changed the name to Google. The name of the search engine was a play on the word "googol", the number 1, followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify, that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. 

The domain name, www.google.com, was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on, September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of Susan Wojcicki, in Menlo Park, California.  

Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. 

Every day, there are billions of searches on Google, in more than 150 languages around the globe. While much has changed from the early days of Google, from its first server housed in a cabinet, built out of toy blocks, to its servers, now being housed in more than 20 data centers globally, its mission of making the world’s information accessible to everyone, remains the same. 


 

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