Twenty-three years ago, two PhD students came up with the idea of setting up a prototype of a ‘large-scale search engine’. His project became Google – the largest search engine in the world. Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday today, September 27th and the tech giant marked the occasion with a Animated Cake Doodle.
“Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the world, and a lot has changed since Google’s early days, from its first server housed in a cabinet made of blocks of toys to its servers now globally.” Housed in over 20 data centers, its mission to make the world’s information accessible to all remains the same,” Google wrote in a bio with the doodle.
The Birth of a Tech Giant
When Lawrence Page, 22, and Sergey Brin, 21, met for the first time in Stanford University’s computer science department, they disagreed on almost everything. Page had recently arrived at Stanford for a PhD in computer science after graduating from the University of Michigan, and Brin, who was also a PhD student, was responsible for showing him around campus.
As 1995 passed and 1996 came, Page and Brin formed a partnership that changed the course of history. Together they developed BackRub, an algorithm that crawls the Web to understand its mathematical hierarchy and rank Web pages according to the number of reputable links they’re directed to.
The search engine got its name from the mathematical term “googol” which refers to 100 zeros followed by one.
On 15 September 1997, Page and Brin registered a domain name for their search engine. Before that, their search engine was eating up most of Stanford’s bandwidth. The new domain name was Google.com.
In August 1998, Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems – a computer hardware and software company facing competition in the market at the time – wrote a $100,000 check to Google, a company that did not exist at the time. .
On September 4, Page and Brin registered the company in California and opened a bank account in the name of the newly registered company to use Bechtolsheim’s checks.
He set up the new company office in Susan Wojcicki’s garage in California. The following year Wojcicki became Google’s marketing manager and is now the CEO of YouTube. From there Google went on a journey of rapid growth to become one of the biggest tech giants in the world.
Today, Google not only provides its main search engine service but has expanded everywhere from cloud-based productivity software like Docs, Sheets and Slides to smartphone manufacturing like the Pixel phone. Google has made significant contributions to research and development in software technology and artificial intelligence.
Recently, the tech-giant has also made a major breakthrough in quantum computing.
Happy birthday, Google.
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