Q:- Who made Google?
-> Sergey Brin and Larry Page....
Larry page a Ph.D student of Stanford university began Google in January in 1996 as a research project. Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of backlinks to be valuable information about that page.The project was nicknamed "BackRub". Sargey Brin also a Ph.D student from Stanford joined Brin to extend his project. The web crawler began exploring the web in March 1996, setting out from Page's own Stanford home page as its only starting point.
Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu.
The backlink data that it gathered into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm. Analyzing BackRub's output which, for a given URL, consisted of a list of backlinks ranked by importance it occurred to them that a search engine based on PageRank would produce better results than existing techniques. Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine.
Sean Anderson (a mate of Larry and Brin) and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name - something that related
to the indexing of an immense amount of data.Sean verbally suggested the word "googolplex," and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form, "googol" (both words refer to specific large numbers).
Sean was seated at his computer terminal, so he executed a search of the Internet domain name registry database to see if the newly suggested name was still available for registration and use.
Sean made the mistake of searching for the name spelled as "google.com," which he found to be available. Larry liked the name, and within hours he took the step of registering the name "google.com" which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros.
Later with the increasing popularity the word google was added to the dictionary as a verb meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."
By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997.
The company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil".
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