Stanford University students Sergey Brin and Larry page submitted a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"...
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype with a full text and hyperlink database of at least 24 million pages is available at http://google.stanford.edu/
To engineer a search engine is a challenging task. Search engines index tens to hundreds of millions of web pages involving a comparable number of distinct terms. They answer tens of millions of queries every day. Despite the importance of large-scale search engines on the web, very little academic research has been done on them. Furthermore, due to rapid advance in technology and web proliferation, creating a web search engine today is very different from three years ago. This paper provides an in-depth description of our large-scale web search engine -- the first such detailed public description we know of to date.
... and Google was born. Since then, Google has dominated search online, and, in the process, became a verb. I remember using Hotbot, navigator, MSN search, and others; the first time I saw Google's homepage, it struck me as rather empty, which struck me as a good thing.
From that point onward, Google's rise was nothing short of meteoric- within months, nearly everyone I knew was using it as their daily search tool.
Google, Inc., which is located in Mountain Valley, California is the result of the seed planted with that Stanford Thesis.
Google now has a market cap of $142 billion dollars and is on pace to do over $20 billion in sales this year alone. Google now employs over 19,000 people worldwide.
Google has also moved into email (which most of you probably use) and online office tools (which many of you have probably tried). Their next step is Chrome, their beta-version browser which has been making headlines recently. Google owns Youtube, your authority on "dumbass crash truck" videos (don't take my word for it), and Google staffers blog via Blogger, which Google owns.
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