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Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation well known all over the world due to popularity of their search engine - Google. The founders of Google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the current CEO is Eric Schmidt.
The company's stated mission from the outset was to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit – is Don't be evil.
In 2006, the company moved to their current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
History
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.
While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites. They called this new technology PageRank, where a website's relevance was determined by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site.
The name Google originated from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people.
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki) garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow Ph.D. student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. (Source: Wikipedia)
Nowadays, Google is one of the most popular search engines in the world.
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