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    Google at 20: Here are 6 Things You Need to Know About the Tech Giant

    Oluwadamilare AkinpeluOluwadamilare Akinpelu
    September 25, 2018
    Google at 20: Here are 6 Things You Need to Know About the Tech Giant

    Global tech company and search engine giant, Google, is celebrating its 20th year anniversary. It is simply fascinating that in just 2 decades, the company has become a key player in the revolution of the modern Internet.

    Google is 20. if you remember the first time you searched using google – well, then that was 2 decades ago … https://t.co/jXDZp5nDrs

    — Harini Calamur (@calamur) September 25, 2018

    From its search engine, which has become so entwined into our daily lives, there’s now a synonym for ‘search’ (you hear people say –just ‘Google’ it). For each of its products, Google has continued to progress, exerting itself as not only a leader in the search engine industry (having an answer to most, if not all the questions in the world) but also in digital advertising, software, and hardware.

    So to mark its 20th birthday, here are 6 facts you need to know about the tech giant.

    • Initially a university project, Google was started by two nerds (it’s founders) Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University in 1996, when they came up with a way to with a way to efficiently rank and search the internet. The company started out with the name “Backrub” because of its initial heavy reliance on back-links to validate the popularity of a website it was indexing.

    The name of a company is important as well and yes there's a bit of a science
    If you think Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all use these same tactics by accident is naive
    Google was originally called "Back rub"https://t.co/Dg17fqmEuU

    — Black_Patriots (@Blackk_Patriots) August 8, 2018

    • The name ‘Google’ is actually a misspelling of the mathematical term ‘googol’ which is basically 1 with a 100 zeros following it and it was officially launched in September 1998 in a garage in Menlo Park, California, with its first funding, $100,000, from investor Andy Bechtolsheim.

    Google got its name from the accidental misspelling of “googol”, which is the mathematical term for the number “1” followed by a hundred “0’s”. https://t.co/lB9BaNIn38

    — … (@callmeMallas) September 23, 2018

    • In 1999, Google tried selling itself to Excite (the then number 2 search engine behind Yahoo), for $1m but was turned down by the online company’s CEO George Bell. It also reportedly tried selling itself to the then search engine Altavista and Yahoo in 1998 to no avail. 3 years later, in 2002, Yahoo offered $3 billion for the company which was rejected.

    Lol there was a time Google wanted Yahoo! to buy them for $1million and Yahoo! rejected it like Mutombo.

    Now Yahoo! Is up for sale 😩😩🙃🙃

    — Media Engineer 🍁 (@BeatsEncode) February 21, 2016

    • By the end of it’s first decade of existence, Google had established itself as the leading search engine. And today, Google accounts nearly 90 per cent of all internet search requests processing over 3.5 billion search queries each day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide.
    • When it launched in 1998, the most valuable company in the world then at over $260 billion on the NYSE was Microsoft. Today, according to Forbes Magazine, Alphabet (Google) is the 2nd most valuable company at at $852 billion, behind Apple Inc. and ahead of Microsoft. Its shares are now traded at $1,231 compared to the opening price of $85 when it went public in 2004.

    On Sept. 4, 1998, Google was a two-man operation being run out of a garage. Today, it's become Alphabet Inc — one of the most valuable companies on the planet, employing tens of thousands of people, with a market cap of $852 billion. https://t.co/4cOgV8vbGG

    — CNBC Make It (@CNBCMakeIt) September 5, 2018

    •  As at today, Google has several products (including Chrome Browser, Maps, Gmail, Google+, YouTube and the Android OS) and subsidiaries which are all brought under a conglomerate, Alphabet Inc with over 80,000 employees.

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