The founder of Google, Sergey Mikhailovich Brin, was born in Moscow on August twenty-first, 1973. His father, Mikhail Izrailevich, worked at the Moscow Institute of Mathematical Economics, and his mother, Evgenia Brin, held the position of engineer at one of the capital’s research institutes. Due to anti-Semitic sentiments that flourished in the scientific circles of the former USSR, the family was forced to emigrate to the United States. There, Brin's father began working at the University of Maryland, and his mother at NASA.

The future founder of Google graduated from primary school in the small town of Adelphi. He received his secondary education in another city - Greenbelt. His father noticed young Brin's inclination towards mathematical sciences and at the age of nine gave him his first personal computer. After graduating from high school, Google founder Sergei Brin became a student at the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Maryland (in 1990). In 1993 he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science.

After completing his studies at the university, Sergei becomes a fellow of the National Science Foundation. In the same year he tries to enter a school where he is rejected. But the future founder of Google does not despair and continues his studies, where two years later he receives and continues his scientific career.

While writing, Sergei Brin meets Larry Page. The future founders of Google quickly became friends based on common interests, one of which was the problem of searching, organizing and presenting information on the Web, as well as the principle of building search engines. Young people began to work together on these issues. As a result, Brin developed link mass and ranking algorithms, Page outlined the concept of network search. Scientists were unable to sell the latest fundamentals and principles of the device. Therefore, they decide to independently implement their own developments. So, in September 1997, the domain name “google.com” was registered, and a new company was launched.

Google placed its first data center in a rented garage. Friends, acquaintances and relatives of the company’s founders invested in the ambitious project. In 1998, Google founder Sergey Brin officially registered the Google company. In the same year, a joint work was published that described the basic principles of the new search engine engine. Even now, this work is considered one of the most deeply revealing of this topic.

High search results contributed to the popularization of the new system. In 1999, the company began to attract large investors. The founder of Google noted that the main advantage of his search engine is its focus on quality search, and not on advertising. It was Sergei who came up with the company’s credo: “Have no evil intentions!” Initially, his project was not intended to be commercial. Nevertheless, the system, which regulated the selection of advertising in accordance with the result of the request, began to generate more than decent income. In 2001, Google founder Sergey Brin took over as the company's president of technology affairs.

Currently, Google is not only the most popular search engine, but also an innovator in the field of technology and business.

Larry Page never prioritized personal enrichment - he simply satisfied his scientific interest.

Page gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of Google.

Lawrence (Larry) Page was born on March 26, 1973 in Lansing, the capital of the American state of Michigan, in a family of technical intellectuals. His father, Professor Carl Victor Page, was one of the first to defend his dissertation in computer science in 1965. He subsequently taught at Michigan State University. Larry's mother, Gloria Page, had a master's degree; she taught programming at the same university. In their family, education played a leading role, so it is not surprising that their sons, Carl and Larry, decided to follow in the footsteps of their parents.

At the age of six, Larry received his first computer as a gift from his parents. Already at this age, he showed interest in technology: at first he simply disassembled mechanisms into parts, then tried to understand the principle of their operation.

Larry was the first student in his elementary school to do homework electronically.

As a child, Larry was fascinated by stories about inventors and dreamed of becoming one of them.

Larry's older brother, Carl, graduated from the University of Michigan, earned a master's degree in computer engineering, and created his own Internet company, eGroups.com, which he then sold to Yahoo! for $400 million

Larry graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991 and attended the University of Michigan, where he received a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. During his studies, Larry built a model of an inkjet printer from Lego, but this idea was not commercialized. However, Larry Page never prioritized personal enrichment - he simply satisfied his scientific interest.

In 1995, Page took part in the computer science program at Stanford University. His supervisor was Terry Winograd, a well-known specialist in the field of computer technology. It was he who advised Larry to choose the study of the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web as a topic for his doctoral dissertation. Larry later called this advice one of the best in his life. As part of his scientific work, he began to track connections between web pages, but at that moment Larry was still far from thinking about inventing something fundamentally new.

In March 1995, an event occurred in Larry's life that had a strong impact not only on his fate, but also on the entire online world: he met his future partner Sergei Brin. This happened in the spring of 1995, during dating week at Stanford University. Sergei Brin, who had studied at Stanford for two years by then, was showing the campus to a group of newly arrived graduate students, and he and Larry immediately began a lively debate on a scientific topic. Subsequently, they recalled that at first glance they seemed to each other “arrogant and unpleasant types,” but very soon the young people discovered a lot in common. Like Larry, Sergei came from a family of professors; his father also taught at the university. They were both proud of their parents and strived with all their might to obtain a doctorate. They had crazy energy and thought little about gaining personal benefit. They loved to experiment and generate innovative ideas. Their friendship, which began with scientific disputes and verbal skirmishes, eventually grew into business cooperation and became the basis for the creation of one of the most popular search engines today.

As part of his scientific research, Page developed a completely new strategy for searching the World Wide Web, which made it possible to determine the relative importance of Web pages depending on how often other pages linked to them. The implementation of this idea in a search engine, the analysis of connections between links and their ranking was carried out by Brin, whose research interest was extracting information from large amounts of data.

The system, intended for internal use and later forming the basis of the Google search engine, was called PageRank. The name PageRank comes from the English word “page” (page), and also coincides with the last name of Larry Page.

While other search engines simply compared words in the query string with words on web pages, PageRank also arranged the results in a certain sequence (ranked them by “importance”). Thanks to this, users were able to quickly find the information they needed on the Internet.

The tandem of Page and Brin subsequently brought them incredible commercial success and worldwide fame. But then, in the mid-1990s, young people thought only about science. It should be noted that the first search engines that appeared on the Internet greatly disappointed scientists, as they produced a completely useless list of sites. The Google search engine became a real breakthrough in this area and by 2003 it confidently took a leading position in the market.

The birth date of Google is considered to be September 4, 1997, when the US Patent Office registered a patent for the PageRank system as part of Google's ranking mechanism. The patent is issued to Stanford University, and Lawrence Page is listed as the inventor.

Then, in 1997, this search engine became available to all Stanford students and employees, who quickly appreciated its merits. Larry and Sergei tirelessly tried to improve the search engine, while simultaneously searching for sources of funding for their research.

After years of fruitless attempts to sell their PageRank algorithm for $1 million, Page and Brin realized it was time to go beyond the campus. In 1998, the friends took sabbaticals to found their own company, Google Inc.

Despite the fact that initially Google Inc. had no commercial orientation, both founders of the company felt that their brainchild had a great future ahead of them. Page saw the company's goal as organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible to all Internet users.

According to Page, progress can be made primarily in mega-ambitious projects: “As long as there are few crazy people willing to do it, you won’t have many competitors. The best people strive to do great things.”

At the beginning, Page and Brin didn't have a clear understanding of how the company would make money. At first, Google experienced financial difficulties, but after it decided to place targeted text advertisements on the search page that were thematically related to user requests, their business went uphill. The company finished 2001 with a profit for the first time.

Thanks to Google's unique approach to advertising and the introduction of a new strategy for relationships with advertisers (cost-per-click), the company's financial performance skyrocketed.

Since its inception to this day, Google has been constantly evolving. Among their developments are the services Image Search, Google News and Frooglle, the most popular email service Gmail, Nexus smartphones based on Android OS, Google Maps and Google Play applications, and much more.

In August 2004, Google Inc. placed shares on the stock exchange, and on the first day the price per share rose from 85 to 100 dollars. Thanks to the rapid growth of the company's value, Page and Brin became billionaires.

Larry Page served as the company's chief executive officer until 2001, when he handed over his leadership to Eric Schmidt. From 2001 to 2011, he served as president of IT products and services, and in April 2011 he again became chief executive officer.

Brin and Page have created an unusual atmosphere of freedom for employees in the company and pay special attention to their social security. Free food, incredible recreation areas (from massage cabins and yoga studios to bowling alleys and dance floors) - all this is available in the offices of a company that many employees call the best in the world, while detractors accuse it of violating antitrust laws and other mortal sins .

Page has always opposed an overly cumbersome management structure. He once remarked that Google "has fewer managers than it should, but it's better to have too few than too many." Google currently employs more than 60,000 people full-time, and in an interview with Wired magazine, Larry Page called his company a "mid-range company" in terms of number of employees.

A film about Google was made, The Internship, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. Larry Page, talking about the reasons that prompted him to participate in the film project, said this: computer science has a marketing problem, teenagers need to be made to fall in love with technology again, to be made to think about a career in this out-of-fashion field.

In the spring of 2013, Google's stock price exceeded $900 for the first time, and the market value of Google Inc. exceeded $300 billion. Today Google Inc. is the world's largest transnational public corporation, which never ceases to amaze the world with its new products and extraordinary solutions of its creators.

In 2013, the company celebrated its 15th anniversary.

Larry Page tops the list of the most influential US CEOs under 40.

Like Sergey Brin, Larry Page is not inclined to lead a luxurious lifestyle. He has a good sense of humor and is known for his witty sayings. One of his hobbies is roller hockey. On December 8, 2007, Larry Page married Lucy Southworth, a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University. In November 2009, their son was born. Page's family lives in California, USA.

Larry Page pays much attention to the development of alternative energy sources and is an active investor in a number of companies involved in the development and production of electric vehicles.

Together with Brin, Larry Page invested money in the film Broken Arrows, released in 2007. He also took part in the filming of the TV series “60 Seconds” and “The Charlie Rose Show”, where he played himself as a guest star.

Larry Page actively speaks at conferences and forums on issues of science, business and technology. In 2002, he was named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, and in 2004, Brin and Page were named People of the Week by ABC's World News Tonight. In the same year they were awarded the prize. Marconi, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of technology and communications, and Page was also elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Larry Page is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Department of Engineering at Michigan State University and co-manager of the X PRIZE Fund with Brin. The Instituto de Empresa awarded him an MBA degree. In 2009, Larry Page became professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, and in the same year Forbes ranked him and Sergey Brin fifth in the list of the most influential people in the world.

Larry Page's net worth is steadily growing. Page is among the richest people on the planet with $15.8 billion, ranking 14th on the Forbes 400.

Together with Sergey Brin, Page owns the Boeing 767a passenger aircraft.

According to Page, he was diagnosed with a very rare illness that weakened the businessman's voice, but did not affect his ability to carry out operational management of the company. Health problems prompted Page to actively help the research program of the Voice Health Institute, led by Steven Zeitels of Harvard Medical School.

Larry Page believes that he would rather bequeath his billions to the head of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, than direct them to charity. In his opinion, it is much more logical to direct funds to a technology company headed by a person who really thinks about the future. “His ideas are inspiring and will bring real benefit to humanity,” Page explained. Moreover, he suggested using a similar scheme for everything else.

Larry Page believes that most people should not work as hard as they do because there is no real need for it.

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American transnational a corporation investing in Internet search, cloud computing and advertising technologies. Google maintains and develops a range of Internet services and products and generates revenue primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. Has more 49,829 employees worldwide.

Google operates more than a million servers in data centers around the world and processes more than one billion search queries and 24 petabytes of user data every day. Six out of ten people online use Googlesearch; Google's rapid growth since its founding has led to the emergence of a large number of products not directly related to the company's main product, the search engine. Google has such online products as the Gmail email service and the Google+ social network.

Because of Google operates in many areas of the economy, the company operates under great pressure from competition. For example, in the market for device production and OS development, the main competitors are companies such as, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft etc. In the direction of search engines then Yahoo!, Baidu, Bing, Yandex.

II.Key indicators of Goole Inc.

III.History of the creation of Google

Google started in January 1996 as a research project Larry Page And Sergei Brin, who were then studying at Stanford University in California.

Although conventional search engines back then sorted search results based on how many times search terms were mentioned on a page, Page and Brin were thinking about a better system that would analyze the relationships between sites. They called this new technology PageRank, the relevance of a site in it is determined by the number and importance of pages that link to the site

The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 4, 1998, the office was located in Menlo Park, California, USA. It is believed that the founders of the company received the first check from investors for , and they had to name the company they were creating just like that.

The advertising company later stated that it was chosen to show that the search engine wanted to provide people with more information. Google originally operated on the Stanford University website and had the domain google.stanford.edu.

Domain name for Google was registered September 15, 1997, and the company was registered on September 4, 1998. It was located in the garage of a friend of the founders (Susan Wojcicki) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, their classmate, was hired as their first employee.

Google- distorted spelling of an English word googol (googol), coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, to represent a number consisting of one and one hundred zeros. The company's stated mission from the very beginning has been to "organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful to everyone," and the company's unofficial slogan, coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit: " Don't be evil"(English: Don’t be evil).

IV.Company activities

In addition to regular search, Google offers a number of services and tools for various needs.

Most of them are web applications that only require the user to have a browser running them and an Internet connection. This allows you to use data anywhere in the world and not be tied to one computer. The advantages of Google services and tools are the presence of a centralized data storage and a well-thought-out interface.

Google services and tools

Google Services

Tools

• Chromium is an open source web browser developed by Google and Opera.
• Google Chrome- a browser developed by Google based on the free Chromium browser, equipped with a number of non-free elements and components responsible for collecting information about the pages visited.
• Google Code- a site for developers interested in developing open source software related to Google products. The site contains source codes and a list of their services with a public API.
• Project Hosting- free specialized hosting of GPL projects and other free projects.
• Google Pack- an installation package that combines packages for a number of Google products (Google Earth, Picasa, Google Desktop, etc.) and several third-party products (Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Reader, etc.).
• Google Deskbar- places Google search on the desktop.
• Google Desktop- a search tool on the user's computer. The program is installed locally and indexes email messages, text documents, Microsoft Office documents, AOL Instant Messanger discussions, web browser browsing history, PDF documents, music files, images, video files.
• Google Earth- a model of planet Earth created using satellite images.
• Picasa- a program for working with digital photos, integrated with Google Blogger, Gmail and Google Plus.
• Hello- an add-on for Picasa that allows you to share your photos with friends without using a website or email. Images are sent directly from one client to another.
• Google Toolbar- an extension for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers, which is a panel of the Google search service and performs a number of additional functions.
• Google Web Accelerator- a program that speeds up the browser by caching and pre-downloading information that may be of interest to the user. The program uses proxy servers owned by Google.
• Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base containing metadata collected primarily by the community

OS

• Android Wear is a modified lightweight version of a mobile OS designed for wearable electronics: watches, glasses, etc.
• Android is an operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.
• Google Chrome OS - Google's Linux-like operating system is designed exclusively for working with web applications. Works on Chromebooks and Chromebox nettops, the first of which (Samsung Series 3) was released in May 2012.
• Google TV is a software and hardware platform for set-top boxes and HDTVs based on Android OS.

Hardware

• Google Search Appliance is a hardware/software solution designed for a corporate Internet network. This device periodically scans and indexes documents (up to 500,000 documents in the base model) for search, on internal or external corporate websites or other web-accessible resources.
• Google Mini- a mini version of the Search Appliance, called Google Mini and intended for small and medium-sized companies. The base model of the device indexes 100,000 documents. In January 2006, two more models were offered, for 200,000 and for 300,000 documents. Additionally, a 50,000 document model was announced on March 2, 2006.
• Google Fiber- Google's project to provide high-speed Internet access. Those. Google becomes a provider.

• Google Glass- a headset (or a wearable computer, which is somewhat closer to the functional set of the device) for smartphones based on Android and iOS, developed by Google.

Ten Basic Principles

In 1998, countless users of the World Wide Web finally received the long-awaited effective search engine, namely, this year Google Inc. was officially registered.

Who among the multi-million army of Internet lovers has not heard of Google Who hasn't used this wonderful search engine at least once? Surely there are none. But not everyone knows what exactly the word “ Google" Word " Google" comes from the mathematical term " googol"(a number consisting of one followed by one hundred zeros). Of course, this designation is purely conditional, because in the entire Universe there is nothing equal in quantity googoloo. However, computer Google created just two human units. They are two peers, born in different parts of the globe, but, fortunately, they met in the right place at the right time. Due to their innate modesty, their first and last names are mostly unknown to the general public, despite the worldwide fame of their amazing brainchild. So, meet: Sergey Brin And Larry Page- nice guys, computer geniuses and ordinary billionaires.

Sergey Brin (Russian roots)

Sergey Brin born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow. His parents belonged to the Jewish technical intelligentsia: his mother Evgenia was an engineer, and his father Mikhail was a gifted mathematician. But due to the latent anti-Semitism that reigned in the Soviet country in those years, Brin Sr. was unable to move up the career ladder. Therefore, when in the late 70s, Jewish families began to be released from the USSR abroad for permanent residence, the Brinov family was one of the first to leave the “country of developed socialism.” Later, Brin Sr. said about it this way: “Everyone loves their homeland, and we loved it too, but not all love is mutual”... The family’s path lay in the USA, where Mikhail had many mathematical acquaintances. Thus, Seryozha has already turned six years old on American soil.

The Breens adapted to the new place in different ways: the head of the family soon got a job as a teacher at the University of Maryland in the town of College Park; his wife became a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency; Grandma had the hardest time - for example, having to take a driver's license test left her in a real shock; and Seryozhka was the easiest of all - due to his young age and easy character. Seryozha inherited his father's talents, and therefore he was immensely bored at school: he considered the American curriculum primitive. He amazed teachers with many things, even printed out homework on a printer (it should be noted that in those days, even in the USA, family computers were rare, and Mikhail Brin gave his son a real Commodore 64 computer for his nine years). Only the grandmother, who with incredible efforts received the long-awaited car license in order to take her grandson to school, sincerely grieved: “What will happen to him, because Serezhenka has only computers in her head?!”

After school, Sergei received a bachelor’s degree “from his father” ahead of schedule at the University of Maryland and for further studies went to the center of the country’s best scientific minds, the famous Silicon Valley (whose name is not entirely correctly translated as Silicon) in California, filled to the brim with leading technical educational institutions institutions and high-tech companies.

It was here, at a very prestigious computer university - Stanford University - that a significant meeting of two talented young men took place, which became the beginning of the creation Google.

Lawrence Edward Page (American roots)

Lawrence Edward Page born March 26, 1973 in Lansing, Michigan, USA. His parents belonged to the American technical intelligentsia: his mother Gloria was a programming teacher at the University of Michigan, his father Carl Vincent was a professor of computer science (ibid.). Having similar genetic roots, Larry simply could not help but fall in love with computers. He, like his future partner, was also the only student at his school who submitted homework electronically! But in those days, the era of punched cards still reigned in computing technology...

Later, at the University of Michigan College of Technology, Page fully demonstrated his leadership inclinations and was even elected president of the honorary society of American students in the field of electronic technology. It was here that he gained invaluable business skills and acquired the qualities of a real manager. His technical abilities also continued to develop, for example, from parts of a Lego constructor, a talented student assembled... a model of an inkjet printer! Having received his bachelor's degree, Larry immediately headed to the renowned Stanford University.

Two units as one

Meanwhile Sergey Brin, led by the “sweet-voiced bird of youth,” did not at all overexert himself with scientific studies during his doctoral studies. The list of his chosen disciplines included dancing, gymnastics, and swimming. And when the father, trying to force his frivolous son to “come to his senses,” urged him to enroll in more advanced courses, he received the answer: “I’ve already signed up. To advanced swimming! However, the caring father worried in vain - Sergei was already captured by a new hobby, which gradually became the passion of his whole life. His name was " search engines».

In those days, information retrieval systems were very imperfect. The simplest request received whole mountains of links arranged in a chaotic order. This could not satisfy users, especially such demanding ones as Brin. However, he created one similar program himself, for himself personally - it combed the Playboy website and automatically downloaded new photos of beauties to the computer of an enterprising young man.

It is to this period that the significant acquaintance of two peers dates back to. Although the very first meeting was clearly not a success: the lively, proud, ambitious and unyielding young bachelors argued until they were hoarse, got cocky, and shouted at each other. But very soon they hit on an all-consuming topic of common interest - search engines! These two magic words instantly turned yesterday's rivals into partners and friends. “We were interested in the search - the information that truly affects people’s lives,” both later recalled.

Collaboration began to boil. And already in 1996, the forerunner was created and launched within the university Google, called BackRub by the creators. The name can be translated as “you give me - I give you” (later it was renamed to PageRank). The essence of the innovation was that the links received as a result of the request were not submitted in any form, as in other systems, but in accordance with the number of links to them from other computer pages. That is, the customer received a list starting with the most popular (and most relevant to his desires) documents.

The revolutionary invention was quickly appreciated by colleagues. But the Stanford professors rebelled: the amount of traffic used by students reached alarming limits. But the inventors could no longer be stopped, and they began looking for investors in order to open their own business.

one + one=google

Venerable and experienced businessman Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of the Sun Microsystems corporation, imposingly puffing on a cigar, listened to the explanations of two disheveled young people about the advantages of the search engine they created for no more than a couple of minutes. “Sorry, but I'm in a hurry. What do you say your company is called?” - and he reached into his pocket for his checkbook. The tandem's amazement knew no bounds, because before that all potential sponsors did not want to hear about their creation. Having received a check for 100 thousand dollars a moment later, they were delighted and did not even immediately notice that it was written out to Google Inc., and not at all Googol- a one followed by one hundred zeros, as they wanted to call their brainchild, implying an infinitely huge search base. Well, let it be Google, the main thing is that the first step has been taken! Having collected the rest of the required amount from relatives and friends, on September 7, 1998, they registered a new enterprise with a capital of one million dollars.

At first, the co-owners huddled in a garage that belonged to their friend Susan Wojcicki, and the company staff consisted of only 4 people. However, fame Google expanded at an extraordinary speed (all the proceeds went exclusively to business development, and not a penny for advertising). Within a year and a half, the enterprise turned into a profitable company. Due to the efficiency and enthusiasm of the creators, as well as unconventional methods of management and business, Google beat one competitor after another. The best evidence of triumph Google Inc. is that at the end of last year the newspaper's list of the world's top 100 largest brands Financial Times it took 1st place (total value - 66.43 billion dollars), ahead, by the way, in this indicator of competitors from Microsoft, as well as such monsters as General Electric, Coca-Cola And Marlboro.

The company’s tremendous successes have not at all spoiled the “technical intelligentsia” Larry and Sergei, despite the fact that their personal fortunes today amount to approximately $18 billion each. By the way, from the moment of transformation Google Inc. In the public company, both co-founders, as well as CEO Eric Schmidt, receive an annual salary of one dollar. Brin lives in a three-room apartment, drives a Toyota with an environmentally friendly engine, does gymnastics, rollerblades and enjoys roller hockey. Wears jeans, sneakers and sports jackets. Paige, on the other hand, is a huge roller hockey fanatic and lives just as modestly as her partner. Apart from his not very large three-room apartment, he has a great sense of humor, and it was he who created the famous company slogans: “You can be serious without a suit” and “Work should be a challenge, and challenges should be fun.”

By the way, about work. The office in the garage has long been forgotten, and the main office of the corporation is located, naturally, in the very heart of modern science, in Silicon Valley. And here everything is provided in order to make the work of staff easier, lift people’s spirits and thus increase their ability to work. Employees can enjoy sports competitions (primarily the extremely popular Google roller hockey), massage, piano music, free coffee and soft drinks. You can easily run into a dog or cat in the corridors of the building, because everyone is allowed to bring their pets to work. But what is most unusual: everyone is free to use 20% of their working time at their own discretion. If you want, count flies, but if you want, develop your own project. Amazingly, it is precisely these hours that account for the lion’s share of entered Google Inc. innovation!

Few find pairs

Until recently, offensively little was known about the personal life of our tandem. In general, morals in scientific circles are much more restrained than in secular society. And there’s no time for serious people to have affairs, they need to get busy! But suddenly last year unexpected news became known, and then a second, equally sensational one. Each found a life partner: first Sergei, and very soon Larry. Let down our secretive guys... our own favorite brainchild! No matter how hard they tried to keep changes in their personal lives secret, as soon as anyone curious dialed Google « Sergey Brin is getting married"and then the same regarding Larry Page, and all the information is before your eyes!

Computer geniuses found their life partners from their own environment. At the beginning of May 2007, a wedding took place in the Bahamas Sergei Brin With Anne Wojcicki, bioengineer. And they were introduced to Susan, who once rented out a garage for an office. Google Inc. Page did not lag behind his companion for long: in early December of the same year, still in the same Caribbean, he rented an entire island from his friend billionaire Richard Branson to perform a marriage ceremony with Lucy Southworth, a student at her native Stanford University. Looking at these two celebrations, one can once again be amazed at the closeness of destinies, the similarity of characters, preferences and life attitudes of both companions.

Google in numbers

Founders Google occupy 26th place in the list of the richest people on the planet. Each person’s personal fortune is $17.9 billion. The company employs more than 5,000 people.

The company allocates 1 percent of total profits to charity: the total over 10 years reaches half a billion dollars. Based on the results of the third quarter of 2007 Google showed an increase in revenue by 57% and net profit by 46% ($4.23 billion and $1.07 billion, respectively).

Google appeared in March 1996 as a scientific project of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D., Stanford students worked on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). SDLP was the goal of "Developing advanced technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and were funded by the National Science Foundation, among other federal agencies. In search of a topic for his dissertation, Page considered, among other things, studying the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, representing the structure of links in the form of a huge graph. His thesis advisor, Terry Winograd, encouraged him to take this idea (which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever received"), and Page focused on the problem of figuring out which web pages link to a given page by looking at the number and the nature of such backlinks in terms of the value of the information on the page (similar to the role of citations in scientific publications). In this scientific project, called "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. Stanford, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Brin was already a close friend of Page, whom he first met in the summer of 1995 in a group of freshmen whom Brin volunteered to show around campus.

PageRank

The search robot began indexing Internet pages in March 1996, set up from Page's home page at Stanford. To convert the collected data into the importance level of a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm. After analyzing BackRub's results, which consisted of a list of URLs ranked by the number of backlinks to a given URL, they realized that a search engine based on PageRank would produce better results than existing search algorithms (existing search engines at the time ranked pages by the number of times the search word appeared on the page). A small search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services (an affiliate of Dow Jones) developed by Robin Lee, since 1996, has already explored a similar page ranking and ranking strategy. RankDex's technology was patented and used later when Li founded Baidu in China.

The search engine was originally located on Stanford's website at google.stanford.edu.

The google.com domain was registered on September 15, 1997.

Brin and Page were against the use of pop-up ads in search results, or the sponsored search results model, and they wrote a research paper on the topic in 1998 while still students. However, they soon changed their minds and early on allowed the inclusion of simple text ads, which are now Google's main source of revenue.

Company Creation

Google received its first funding in August 1998 in the form of $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsteim, one of the founders of the late Sun Microsystems. Google was officially incorporated on September 4, 1998, in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. The name "Google" comes from the word "googol", meaning the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros.

. (Although Enid Blyton used the phrase "Google Bun" in The Magic Faraway Tree (published 1943). Increasingly used in everyday language, the verb "to google" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006 as meaning "using Google to search the Internet." The home page still had a "BETA" label, but an article in Salon.com had already claimed that Google's search results were better than other search engines such as Hotbot or Excite.com, and praised Google for greater technological innovation than had overloaded portal sites (such as Yahoo!, Excite.com, Lycos, Netscap's Netcenter, AOL.com, Go.com and MSN.com), which during the growing dot-com bubble were seen as the "future of the web", especially by investors stock market.

In March 1999, the company moved its offices to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, where other Silicon Valley technology startups were located. After rapid growth, the company leased a building complex in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1999. The company has remained at this location ever since and the complex has since become known as the Googleplex (a pun on Googleplex, the number equal to 1 with a googol of zeros). In 2006, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million.

Google Search attracted a loyal following among a growing number of Internet users who loved its simple interface. In 2000, Google began selling advertising related to search keywords. The advertisement was text-based, without cluttering the page design or reducing its loading speed. Keywords were sold based on a combination of bid price and number of clicks, with prices starting at $0.05 per click. This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto.com (later renamed Overture Services before being acquired by Yahoo! and rebranded as Yahoo! Search Marketing). Although many of its competitors failed to enter the new Internet market, Google was quietly rising.

Capitalization

At the beginning of 2003, the famous British company Interbrand declared Google the brand of the year. The search engine managed to beat out Apple and Coca-Cola in this title. Despite generating huge profits, Google in 2004 was still a private company, whose shares were owned by a small circle of investor companies, its founders and employees. For further development, it became necessary to withdraw Google Inc. to the stock exchange. This happened in August, when the company's shares appeared on the NASDAQ stock exchange, causing a great stir and making Sergei and Larry billionaires. A little bit later Forbes magazine will name Google authors the youngest billionaires on the planet.

To eliminate the influence of corporations owning large blocks of shares, only shares that did not give their holder voting rights in the company were sold at the auction. The founders reserved the right to manage the company.

In 2004, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page were awarded the prestigious Marconi Prize. Previously, it was awarded to Tim Berners-Lee, who invented WWW, and Robert Metcalf, the inventor of Ethernet technology. As you can see, Sergei and Larry’s developments in the field of information technology were highly appreciated, even considered revolutionary.

The Times of India website analyzed the advantages of Google over other search engines in 2001. It turned out that Google's strengths are minimal human intervention in the search engine and the constant improvement of the technology used. An important component of the company’s success has also been its correct positioning in the established Internet services market throughout its existence. Initially Google Inc. did not consider large portals as competitors, but saw them as potential clients. Licensing your own search engine to other firms has become a major source of revenue. And later the company began to increase the number of additional services provided.

Google VS Microsoft

Today Google.com ranks fourth in the list of the most visited sites on the Internet, behind Yahoo!, MSN and AOL. A real war for network users began between these companies. It is unlikely that search engines from Yahoo! or AOL will be able to compete with Google, but Google’s portal may turn out to be quite competitive. However, time will tell. The real threat to Google now comes from Microsoft, which is working to develop its MSN system, which, of course, will be actively used in the next versions of their operating systems. Steve Ballmer, at a recent meeting with Stanford students, shared his thoughts on the future of Google, giving it a maximum of five years of life, and Bill Gates, at the D3 conference held in Carlsbad, called Google “a bubble that is still afloat.”

Sergei Brin’s phrase is often quoted in the media: “ Some say Google is God. Others say that it is Satan himself. But if both think Google is too powerful, let them remember that search engines are just a click away. People come to Google because they choose it. We don't force them».

Today, Google is not only about Internet search. It is also one of the most modern email services, the world's most popular video service, web applications for the office, news, and much more. As well as the Android platform on smartphones and communicators. The company continues its development, gaining more and more influence on the Internet every day. No one is going to stop there. Sergey Brin is a rather vain person. In one of his interviews, he noted that if Google were his most notable achievement in life, he would be upset. Well, his wife is already working in the field of genetics on a social network that will contain the DNA of all people on the planet. Google itself is the world's premier source of information. Bill Gates is not just trying to compete with Google in the Internet search market. He is a smart man, and understands perfectly well the influence that a company that occupies a leading position in information search will have. Gates's only problem is that he doesn't understand that such a company already exists - and it's not Microsoft. Google is still a very young company. But in 6-8 years, perhaps, Google will be the largest company in IT, occupying a very important place in the life of every person on the planet. There are some concerns about how such an influence might turn into a disaster for all of humanity. Let's hope that this will not happen, because the main principle of Google, formulated by Sergey Brin, is: “Do no harm!”