History of Google

So for this assignment I found the history of google to be a very interesting topic because I use it almost every day but never questioned who it came to be and who invented it. Google was created by computer scientist Larry Page and Sergey Brin who met in 1995 at Stanford University. In 1996 they began to work on a search engine called BackRub. The term "Google" came from the word "googol" a term for the number one followed by 100 zeros. The company's mission statement was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful” All they need was a donor to help them get started so Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was so impressed after a quick demo of the search engine that he wrote a check for $100,000 and made it out to Google Inc. But there was one problem Google Inc. didn't exist just yet but on September 4, 1998 they changed that and incorporated Google. That check also enabled Page and Brin to raise $900,000 more for their intial round of funding even getting the investment of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.

During the company's rapid growth they managed to introduce a variety of products since the 2000s including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Voice, and the web browser Chrome. They also managed to acquire the streaming platforms YouTube and Blogger.com.

Sources:
https://interestingengineering.com/almost-everything-you-need-to-know-about-googles-history
https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-google-1991852