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Android operating system For mobile devices.
Google Play– application server for the Android system.
Gmail is an email client.
GoogleDrive – cloud storage.
Picassa is a photo editing platform.
Blogger is a platform for creating blogs.

The concern, which is currently called Alphabet, includes the following companies:

Google Inc. – Internet services, applications, gadgets, etc.
Google Fiber is a broadband Internet access provider.
NestLabs – smart homes and housing technologies.
Calico is a life extension program.

Google Capital is an investment company.
Google Venture is a venture fund.
Google X is a software developer.
Google Verily is a health research center.

In 2014, Google officially became part of Alphabet Inc., which united under its leadership other assets managed by the same founders. The consolidation of all services, projects and subsidiaries was carried out for transformation and convenience in management, as well as to minimize the possibility of a raider takeover. As of the end of 2016, Alphabet became the most valuable company in the world. The company's market capitalization has exceeded half a trillion dollars. CEO of Alphabet Inc. Sundar Pichai was appointed. Sergey Brin and Larry Page retained their rights as CEOs of the conglomerate and own the majority of the company's shares.

Google/Alphabet shares

By mid-2007, the price of Google shares increased from 85 to $300, in 2013 the price was already more than $500, and at the current moment in early 2017, the mark of $850 per share was reached, which is ten times more than the initial value 13 years ago.

Since the reorganization of Alphabet, new shares have been introduced to the exchange, which can be viewed using the ticker GOOG. Legacy shares under the ticker GOOGL are also available on the exchange. Both types of shares are traded on the NASDAQ exchange. There are currently 515,912,000 shares outstanding.

After the introduction of the ALPHABET concern and the structural reorganization, several types of shares were introduced into the company.

The first type - shares that are traded under the ticker GOOGL are standard securities, which provide voting rights to its holder and receipt of standard dividend payments. These shares are referred to as type A.
Type C shares are always a little cheaper because they are purely speculative and do not provide any voting power to their holders. They are also publicly traded and trade under the new ticker symbol GOOG. With such shares, the company encourages its employees, gifts it to partners, and is used as a payment instrument when acquiring startups.
There is also a third type of shares, which is designated type B. They are not listed on the stock exchange and there are an order of magnitude fewer of them than type A and C shares combined - only 52 million type B shares are issued. However, these shares have the same weight and even slightly more, like the total share of all A and C, since they are equal to 10 votes. Shares of this type are concentrated in the hands of the founders Brin and Page in predominant quantities, as well as certain shares in some friends and partners, including Schmidt and Pichai.

Such division of shares is protection against raider takeover and transfer of the controlling stake into the hands of one shareholder or group of shareholders. Thus, Page and Brin retained more than 60% ownership of the company, as well as decisive voting rights in all projects.

If some large investor begins to buy shares of type A, then even after completing what he started to the end, he will not be able to compete with shareholders who own securities of type C.

In general, A and C shares are fairly similar, especially for speculative purposes. Both options have high liquidity with daily volume of just over 2 million shares and average earnings per share of $28. That is why most of speculators prefer to purchase new shares of type C. They have the same properties, are quite liquid and at the same time cost a few dollars less.

Benefits of Google Stock

Investors around the world continue to buy and invest in the company, because the directors and CEO have proven in practice that they know how to manage such a corporation and know where they are heading. Since the company entered the stock exchange, the price for shares has not fallen below the initial level, and there have been no significant drops in value. At the same time, quotes continue to grow every year.

Taking into account the thoughtfulness and caution of the company's owners, one can be confident in eliminating the possibility of takeovers or other problems in the company's administration. Active sponsorship of programmers and startups, as well as the constant implementation of new projects ensures constant growth in the company's profits.

Despite the fact that Google shares are already worth 10 times more than since the IPO, investors and analysts believe that the value will continue to rise and that long-term investment in the company is the right decision in any case.

How to buy Google shares?

To purchase Google shares, you need to open a brokerage account with a company that provides brokerage - access to a limited list of shares of American markets. There are many brokers in the Russian Federation that have this functionality. You can also open an account with an American brokerage company and buy shares directly on the NASDAQ exchange.

In any case, you should understand that opening an account is a very long and routine procedure, especially in foreign companies. You will need to prepare and provide a lot of documents. It is also necessary to understand that to purchase Google shares you will need an impressive amount of funds, given high cost shares

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Google, Yandex, mail.ru, rambler - search engines without which we cannot imagine ours. According to 2014 data, the most popular search engine in Russia is Yandex, slightly inferior to Google in popularity, followed by mail.ru, rambler and bing with a large lag.

But in Ukraine and Belarus, Google takes an honorable first place, as in the rest of the world, where it accounts for 68% of the market, followed by Baidu, Yahoo, Yandex, Bing, AOL, ASK with a large lag.

This article will talk about Google and the history of its creation. Google is also notable for the fact that our former compatriot, now living in the United States of America, Sergey Brin, took part in its creation. The search engine dates back to 1997.

So, 17 years of work, whether this is a lot or a little, considering that the development of this search system began from a small garage, and subsequently made the creators billionaires and by 2003 it became famous all over the world, is probably not much.

So, Google was created by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. By creating this search system, Sergey and Lawrence tried to fulfill their dream of systematizing all the information available on the network. They met at Stanford University, where they both studied.

They did not immediately like each other, since they were both smart and talented and always got into arguments, but these disputes soon brought them closer together and they became good friends. Both have been interested in computers since childhood.

Sergei Brin got his first computer when he was 9 years old. Lawrence Page's father, Carl Page, was a very famous computer scientist at that time, so hardware was his main hobby from childhood.

They tell the story of how little Lawrence assembled a printer from Lego parts. At first Lawrence Page Graduated with honors from the University of Michigan, after which he decided to continue his studies at Stanford, where he met Sergei Brin.

Google founder Sergey Brin.

Biography of Sergei Brin

Sergei Brin was born in the Soviet Union in 1973, and in 1979 Sergei moved to live with his family in the United States, which was possible due to his family's Jewish roots.

It must be said that Sergei subsequently thanked his father more than once for moving his family to the USA, even when, as an adult, he visited Russia, it did not make a good impression on him, so his childhood fears and desire remained in him throw stones at a police car.

Sergei Brin's parents were from a scientific background; they graduated from Moscow University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics.

Sergei's father, a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, became a teacher at the University of Maryland in the USA, where he later became an honorary professor. Sergei’s mother in the USA worked for NASA as a climate specialist.

University of Maryland and Sergei graduated early, and then entered Stanford University. The idea of automatically searching for information on the Internet came to Sergei a long time ago.

At Stanford, he created a program to automatically search the Internet for photographs of models from Playboy magazine; students really liked this program, but Sergei soon had to remove it, as they say his girlfriend didn’t like it.

Since 1995, Brin and Page have been working together to create a completely new operating principle. search program for the Internet.

The principle of its operation is that the more visits a site has and links to it, the more complete information it contains and is ranked higher by the search engine than others.

So Page and Brin begin work on their brainchild, which will later become the most popular search engine in the world.

In the meantime, their project is partially financed by the university, and Sergey and Lawrence themselves find part of the money for the development of their project.

Page turned his dorm room into the location of a huge server on which he studied. And Brin sets up something like an office in his room and starts promoting his system.

Young people patented their system. There were attempts to sell the work, however, no one believed that a search engine could bring in huge amounts of money.

By the way, George Bell, the same one who did not advise young people to develop their search site, and soon went bankrupt to start an email site. The project was enthusiastically received by university students.

Gradually, the project acquired its name Google, this is an imprecise spelling of the word googol, which in mathematics means ten to the hundredth power. With this word, the creators wanted to reflect what a huge amount of information their system can structure.

Thanks to their project, Page and Brin get the opportunity to teach at Stanford, they began giving lectures there in 1998, in which they talked about how to analyze and search data on the Internet.

The university management did not like the fact that Sergei and Lawrence's search engine was eating up half of its traffic, and Brin and Page decided to leave the university and open their own company.

The only question was money. Andy Bechtolsteim, founder of Sun Microsystems and Granite Systems, gives them 100 thousand dollars. Brin and Page leave Stanford and settle in a garage in Menlo Park, California.

Now Google has its own domain name google.com and Google Inc. is registered.

Soon the garage became insufficient, new employees and, more importantly, new investments. Google first moves to premises in Palo Alto, and Mike Moritz and John Derr (representatives of large investors who previously worked with Amazon and Yahoo!) appear on the board of directors.

And after some time, Google begins construction of its own Googleplex building.

In 2000, Google expanded beyond the United States. Their clients include British, Italian, Korean, Chinese, and South American portals.

Google already has branches in Tokyo and Hamburg. Sergey Brin is actively involved in the creation of the Russified version.

He speaks excellent Russian and even gives interviews to Russian journalists in his native language. As one of the presidents of the company, he is mainly involved in organizational matters.

Google employees have the right to engage in scientific activities, in the offices they always have free drinks, tea and coffee, as well as an excellent canteen.

They are also entitled to a portion of the company's shares. The more Google grew, the more privacy issues it encountered.

So, when creating Google Earth, the program included an image of the roof of the White House, which could have harmed its safety. There were also private lawsuits.

So, some home owners did not like the fact that they were exposed to everyone in detail in the Google Street Vew program.

In 2013, the well-known Edward Snowden said that the American government received confidential information about users through Google, Yahoo and Facebook.

However, the company’s lawyer, David Damond, explained this by saying that the information did not give the American government direct access to users’ personal data.

Google is a dynamically developing company; in 2010, voice search became available to Russian users. In 2013, the Google Glass project was demonstrated.

These are glasses that allow you to access the Internet, make mobile communications and shoot video. good resolution. Google Glass has also generated a lot of controversy, with some in public places their use is prohibited.

Google is so popular that a new verb has appeared - to google, which means to search for something on the Internet.

However, the creators of the brand themselves are against applying this word to all information, but only when using the Google search engine. And this word appeared with light hand Page himself.

Google is a global brand with many applications and services, such as YouTube, Google AdSense, Google Analytics.

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Sergey Brin He was not modest in his statements about Russia:

“Russia is Nigeria in the snow. Do you really like the idea of a bunch of crazy cowboys controlling the world's energy supply?"

“Thank you to my father for taking us out of this country.”

However, later, in his defense, he said that these statements were due to drinking too much wine.

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Today, many of us simply cannot imagine a world without technology industry giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and others. Although, of course, there were times when these companies did not exist, and their founders were ordinary people, like you and me.

Of course, the way they achieved success may become interesting story with happy ending, which will teach each of us something. It is not without reason that many ordinary Internet users are so interested in the biographies of famous companies, and at the same time the people who stand behind them. It is for such people that this article will be published.

In it we will tell the story of the formation of one of the most famous brands in the world - a search engine whose name is written with two “o” (in English). And no, it's not Yahoo. Our story will be dedicated to those who are called “the founders of Google” - two business partners, one of whom has Russian roots.

Where it all started

Surprisingly, the development of the modern Internet giant began back in 1996. Then two graduates of Stanford University - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - worked on a common project. The purpose of the latter was to systematize information in the form of a catalog and its further processing. At the time of the creation of such a product, the founders of Google, of course, did not know what all this could lead to. These were, in fact, simple graduate students who came up with an original approach. He, in turn, justified himself many times over.

At the initial stage, as is known from many sources, the developers of the Backrub project experienced a significant lack of finances. For this reason, they often had to literally cobble together functional solutions from parts of outdated computers that had fallen into disrepair. Despite this, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were able to show good results already in 1997. Everyone began to learn about their system for searching information on the Internet more people in the University.

Search for a buyer

Few people know, but in 1998, shortly after the start of development of their technology, the founders of Google intended to sell all the results of their work. There were several reasons for this - the guys did not want to continue working on the project; they understood that they could simply make good money on this innovation and start something new, more interesting. In order to find an interested buyer, they even created a special office. The founders of Google were able to establish some connections (in particular, with the founder of Yahoo, the largest search engine at that time). True, David Filo was not interested in the system at the level to invest in it. He gave advice to the guys to further refine their search project(even then it was called Google), and if they succeeded, they sold it ready-made.

First office

It is noteworthy that the first office space that housed three company employees was a garage. His guys rented it to Menlo Parennu (California). At this point, the service was already available on the Internet; Every day it was visited by about 10 thousand people who were looking for information of one kind or another.

The success that each Google founder achieved could be considered unlikely even at that time. This is evidenced by the fact that some reputable US publications placed the site in the “Top 100” ranking of technology portals in the world.

The dizzying growth continued. In 1999, the company processed about 500 thousand requests per day on its portal. The founders of Google, whose photos you see below, were able to attract several investments from leading funds totaling $25 million. The money was used to purchase servers and expand the capabilities of the search engine.

Larry Page

If we talk about this figure at Google, then after reading Page’s biography, you will not be surprised by his choice of profession. Larry's parents are a computer science professor and a programming teacher. He was born in 1973, and today, at 42 years old, Page is a dollar billionaire. This founder of Google is deservedly included in the top twenty of the Forbes.com ranking with his fortune.

According to media information, he is married, lives in the USA and owns his own Boeing 767.

Sergey Brin

For us, Brin’s biography is more interesting, if only for the reason that this founder of Google is Russian. According to publicly available data, at the age of 6 he left Moscow, where he lived with his parents, teachers at Moscow State University (Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics). Later, Brin's father began working at Stanford, and his mother went to NASA. While studying for a master's degree at the same university, Sergei became interested in search engines, as a result of which he began the first steps to create Google back then.

At the moment, Brin is married and has a son. Like Page, he ranks in the top 20 of Forbes' wealth estimates.

The basis of success

As we can see, it was no coincidence that Google founders Sergey Brin (photo below) and Larry Page found success in the field of Internet search and development of online services. In fact, such a sharp rise was preceded by long work. Both were from an intelligent family of specialists in mathematics and technology. Both grew up in the USA - a land of technological opportunity at that time. Each founder of Google worked to improve search technology, with the goal of starting a company and making money being only the last in the line of goals. This is evidenced by the fact that private company based on this technology was created after repeated testing. Moreover, the guys wanted to sell their work and “disperse” in their own interests. There are even rumors that in the early days of working together they couldn’t even tolerate each other because their characters were too different. However, as we see, fate decided differently.

Increasing positions

The growth of Google's presence in the Internet search market has become colossal. At that time, the undisputed leaders were Yahoo, WebAlta, AltaVista. As you know, today none of them can compete with Google in terms of capitalization. In a very short time, a little-known university project was able to bypass the “business sharks”.

Experts believe that the explanation that Google founder Sergey Brin and his partner Larry Page were able to consolidate their efforts so successfully lies in the idea. It was to develop the perfect search technology. At the same time, companies like Yahoo at that time paid attention to profits and income from other types of business. The direction of Internet search as of 98-99 was considered unprofitable and unpromising. Perhaps Page and Brin simply did not know about it.

Creation of new businesses

But today, when the Google search engine is the absolute and undisputed leader in search throughout the world, the development team is conducting completely different types of business. We can say that after a successful start in the field of searching and systematizing information, the founders of the system began to work in other areas.

In particular, this is the YouTube video blogging service (which is the leader in terms of the volume of videos posted on it); the most popular blogging platform Blogger.com, the Google Plus social network, Google Drive, Google Adsense advertising and much more. We will tell you a little more about each of these types of businesses from the search giant in separate parts of the article.

Social media

The most popular projects, as time has shown, are social networks. This is explained by the fact that people by nature are inclined to communicate, establish connections with each other, make acquaintances, and so on. One of the most famous in the world is the service launched by the search engine - it is called Google Plus. This is an identification platform that not only allows the user to find his friends and communicate with them, but also gives the opportunity to express his opinion about a particular resource on the Internet, leaving an appropriate “tag” - the so-called “plus”. This, in turn, helps to improve the mechanisms developed by Google to evaluate sites. Those that receive more “pluses” deserve a higher position in search results. As of 2013 in social network there were more than 500 million registered users.

For the company, thanks to the merging of different services together, a single image is created, positions in different niches are strengthened solely due to the name. For the user, which is important, this increases convenience and comfort in work. A person, as already mentioned, does not need to switch from one account to another - for all this there is a unified authorization system. With it, there is no need to use third-party services - all tasks can be completed quickly and easily on one site, and this is Google.

Mobile platforms

Speaking about the achievements of the search giant, one cannot fail to mention the world's most popular mobile operating system. To be more precise, the history of Android began as just another startup that served as a platform for mobile devices. In 2005, it was acquired by Google. For many IT industry specialists, this was a real surprise - few could say why the search engine needed the development of a mobile OS. Today, years after that deal, everyone can say that this step was very successful. If you believe the platform's distribution statistics, in 2014 there were more than 1.6 billion devices in the world with this operating system, which accounted for about 75% of the entire market. With such indicators, even the leader in the production of mobile devices, Apple, which has its own iOS operating system, which is often opposed to Android, cannot compete for the market in this situation.

Although the site is open-sourced (some device manufacturers can create their own modifications of this OS), Google’s earnings on it are significant due to, for example, the same Google Play - a content store. In addition, producers using the platform must pay licensing fees.

Prospects

It is difficult to assess the full breadth of prospects that are open to such a strong player in the IT market as Google. The company is growing every day by expanding its catalog of businesses, constantly buying up the most promising startups. It is now difficult to imagine that any other brand could beat Google in the field of Internet search. We can safely say that for now, the position of this giant remains unshakable for any of its competitors, including the popular search engines Bing, Yahoo, Aol, Yandex, Baidu and others, due to certain circumstances. All over the world, the Google brand is known as a leader, and this will not change soon.

In general, you know who the founders of Google are and how they managed to create this empire. For each of us, this story can be a good lesson that everything in this life is possible. The main thing is to strive to achieve your goals and constantly work on yourself.

Sergey Brin is an American entrepreneur, specialist in the field of computer technology, information technology and economics. Together with Larry Page, he became the founder of the Google search engine.

Sergei was born in Moscow into a family of graduates of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, Mikhail Brin and Evgenia Krasnokutskaya, Jews by nationality. Sergei's family belonged to hereditary scientists. His paternal grandfather also studied mathematics, and his grandmother studied philology.

When the boy was five years old, the family immigrated to the United States under the resettlement program. Brin's father becomes an honorary professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother collaborates with serious companies NASA and HIAS.

Young Seryozha, like his parents, turned out to be a promising mathematician. IN primary school the boy studied under the Montessori program. Sergei went to a school for gifted children and even at this level stood out for his abilities. On a computer donated by his father, the boy created his first programs and printed out his completed work. homework, which surprised the teachers. The grandmother of the future genius lamented that Sergei had only computers in his head.

In high school, Brin visited the Soviet Union as part of an experience exchange program. After the young man saw life in his former homeland, Sergei thanked his father for taking him away from Russia.

Later, the young man will once again express an anti-Russian position, calling the development of this country “Nigeria in the snow,” and the government “a gang of bandits.” Seeing the resonance of such words, Sergey Brin abandoned these phrases and began to insist that he meant something else, and these sayings were twisted by journalists.

Business and technology

After school, the young man enters the University of Maryland and receives a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and computing systems" Brin completed his master's degree at the prestigious Stanford University in California. There, Sergei became seriously interested in Internet technologies and began developing a new search engine system.

At the university, Sergey Brin met graduate student Larry Page, which became a decisive moment in the biography of both computer geniuses.

At first, the young people were constant opponents in discussions, but gradually became friends and even wrote a joint scientific work, “Anatomy of a large-scale hypertext Internet search system,” in which they proposed a new principle of data processing for searching information on the global Web. This work eventually became the 10th most popular of all Stanford scientific papers.

In 1994, a young experimenter created a program that automatically searched for new images on the Playboy website and uploaded photographs to Brin’s computer memory.

But gifted mathematicians decided not to leave scientific work solely on paper. On its basis, programmers created the student search engine Back Rub, which proved the validity of this idea. Sergey and Larry came up with the idea of not just displaying the result of processing a search request, but ranking the received data according to demand among other users. Now this is the norm for all systems.

In 1998, as graduate students at the university, young people decided to sell their own idea, but no one dared to make such an acquisition. Then, after creating a business plan, which showed that an amount of $1 million was needed for initial capital, the young people decided to open a business themselves. Money had to be borrowed from relatives, friends and colleagues. Both Brin and Page left graduate school.

Having improved some aspects of their brainchild, the programmers turned university development into a large-scale business. New system received the name “Googol”, which means “One with one hundred zeros”.

Well, the name known throughout the world today was due to a mistake. When young people were looking for investors, only the head of Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim, responded to their call. The businessman believed the young geniuses and wrote a check for a tidy sum, but not in the name of the registered “Googol”, but in the name of the non-existent “Google Inc”.

Soon the media started talking about the new search engine mass media. Google raised its head even further when it survived the “dot-com crash” of the early 2000s, when hundreds of Internet companies went bankrupt one after another.

In 2007, David Wise and Mark Malseed created a book about the unique search engine Google. A Breakthrough in the Zeitgeist,” which described the success story of each of the co-founders of the search engine and their achievements.

Sergey Brin believes that the Apple and Facebook organizations undermine the main idea of the Internet as a free Network and free access to any information. The businessman also categorically disagrees with the idea of fighting against Internet piracy and closing free access to books, music, and films.

Personal life

For a long time, Sergei Brin’s personal life was in the background. Already famous and incredibly wealthy, Sergey Brin started a family. The programmer’s wife was Anna Wojcicki, a Yale University graduate in Biology and the founder of her own company 23andMe. The wedding took place in 2007 in the Bahamas, and a year later the couple had a son, Benji. In 2011, the family expanded again: they now had a daughter.

Unfortunately, the birth of a girl did not strengthen the marital relationship. Two years later, because of Sergei’s affair with corporate employee Amanda Rosenberg, Brin and Wojcicki separated, and in 2015 they officially filed for divorce.

Sergey Brin is engaged in gigantic charitable investments. In particular, the entrepreneur donated $500 thousand to support the Wikipedia project, which, according to the American entrepreneur, exactly meets the principles of free access to information.

Together with Larry Page, Sergei is involved in the fight against aging and finances a number of projects in this area. After Brin's mother fell ill with Parkinson's disease, and a genetic analysis showed that he himself had a predisposition to this disease, the businessman ordered a biological corporation to calculate how the gene changes in this disease. The mathematician is confident that correcting an error in genetics is no more difficult than in computer code. It is only important to know what to fix.

Since Brin and Page launched the development of interactive glasses-video camera “Google Glass”, Sergey has not parted with them either at home, or on the street, or at work. And in all photographs since 2013 he appears with this “wearable computer” on his face.

Sergey Brin in Everyday life far from kitsch and luxury. But the creator of Google eventually decided to change his home to a more comfortable one. In New Jersey, a programmer purchased a house worth $49 million. The mansion consists of 42 rooms, most of which are bedrooms and bathrooms. In addition to living quarters, the house has a swimming pool, fitness center, basketball court, wine cellars and bars.

Sergey Brin is interested in innovation and technological projects, as can be seen from the photo from his official Instagram. Young man supporting healthy image life, sports. Sergei's hobbies include piloting an aircraft.

The extreme hobby began with the purchase of a Boeing 767-200 aircraft, which was called the “Google Jet,” together with Page. Its cost was $25 million. But, of course, the programmer trusts the flights to professionals, being content with rare flights on a training ship.

Sergey Brin now

The company of Sergey Brin and Larry Page continues to develop. The main office is located in the center of Silicon Valley. The democratic attitude towards employees amazes even seasoned observers.

Employees are allowed 20% of their working time to do personal business, come to work with their four-legged pets, and play sport games on Saturdays. The corporation's canteen is served only by chefs with the highest category. Both co-founders of Google never completed graduate school, so Eric Schmidt, a doctor of technical sciences, was invited to replace the CEO, and they themselves limited themselves to the positions of presidents.

Condition assessment

In 2016, the popular Forbes magazine ranked Brin 13th in its ranking of the richest people in the world. Financial growth Google Inc began in 2004, and soon both Google co-founders began calling themselves billionaires. In 2018, according to financier estimates, Sergey Brin’s fortune was $47.2 billion. Larry Page is ahead of his colleague by $1.3 billion.

The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.

By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.

Soon after, Backrub was renamed by Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey"s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and now CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things continues to this day.)

Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the first “Doodle” in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” and “ The ten things we know to be true” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly - hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, Yoshka. Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a. “The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.

The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, with more than 60,000 employees in 50 different countries, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Smartbox and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us - from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.