Google turns 17 – Info7

Notimex – The company based in Mountain View, California, United States, was born as an academic project of students Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University

Page and Brin started in 1996 the development of a search engine. called BackRub to determine the importance of specific web pages; however, the university stopped using it because it required too much bandwidth.

So, the September 15, 1997 the Google.com domain was registered in his name using a play on words based on the mathematical term “googol” (the number one followed by 100 zeros), reflecting the aim of Larry and Sergey to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the Web.

For the signature, 1998 was an important year due to a deposit of one hundred thousand dollars by the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim, for the then little-known Google Inc.

With these resources, the company could start with the formalities of constitution of society, also born that year doodles today number about two thousand and whose designs have been led by artists like Lorie Loeb, Wayne Thiebaud, Christoph Niemann and Eric Carle, among many others.

The entrance of the millennium brought major changes to the world of technology and the development of it was dizzying, and Google entered the swirl

So, launched the first versions of Google.com in ten languages.: German, Danish, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish, now the search service is available in over 150 languages.

In July 2001, Google announced Images which initially offered access to 250 million images.

Since its formation, the technology company implements tools and 2002 was no exception, which launched tools such as AdWords and Google News.

The latter began with four thousand sources of news, but now includes more than 50,000 sources and has 70 regional editions in different languages.

In 2003 came herramiemtas as blogguer, AdSense (a service targeted advertising) and Google Grants and Google Books.

In August 2004, the company also launched Gmail, debuted on Wall Street with an initial public offering of 19 000 605 000 000 052 ordinary shares of class A with an opening price of $ 85 per share.

In recognition of enterprise policy that allows employees to perform a task defined as a creative and meaningful, in 2007 Google topped the list of the . 100 best companies to work for by Fortune magazine published

In May of that year the launch of Street View in Google Maps was announced in five US cities: Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco, now, Street View can walk the streets of more than 50 countries.

For the first month of 2010 was presented Nexus One, the first cell phone company, since the line Nexus devices has expanded and now includes electronic and mobile tablets.

As part of its commitment to the environment Google performs actions such as renting a herd of goats to mow the grass and reduce the risk of fire without producing carbon dioxide in the land surrounding its headquarters.

It has also launched large-scale commitments as investment of 200 million dollars for a wind farm in West Texas produces enough clean energy to generate more than two gigawatts (GW), the equivalent to power public elementary schools in New York, Wyoming and Oregon for a year.

In the first days of August This year he created the company Alphabet, which groups independently companies that were part of Google Inc, as Calico, Nest, Ventures, Capital and development lab Google X.

Thus Alphabet will replace Google Inc. as the entity that is publicly traded, and Google shares will be converted automatically into an equal number of shares of Alphabet, with equal rights.

Under the “Great premise it is not sufficient “, the company considers to be good at something is just the starting point, but not the goal.

” Because we are convinced that efforts to achieve them may lead to better results than expected. Through innovation and perseverance, hope from what works and improve it in unexpected ways, “points out the firm.