Google Introduction

Google is a company that was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as a research PhD project while they both attended Stanford University. It was started up as a brain-storming idea between the two college engineers. They both dropped out of there programs to focus entirely on the start of there new company. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and had there first out case on August 19, 2004. The company's mission statement was to help organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and more useful all across the board. It was originally spelled as "Googol" but seeing as they wanted the site to be more user friendly, they re-named it how it is spelled today, "Google". It started out in a friend's garage who also was a fellow student and was also there first employee. Nobody really wanted to buy there new technology in the beginning because no one had ever heard of it and because it wasn't anything that anyone had ever seen before. They raised $1 million seeing as no one would help fund them. Google's name spread by word of mouth throughout the community. In June of 1999, Google released there first press release announcing the start of the company. They created a place of headquarters called, "The Google Place". Google's main philosophy was " don't be evil". In the beginning, it was very hard for the company to make any money. There original homepage was first created by Sergey Brin. Unlike there other competition, they refused to clutter there homepage with a whole lot of various advertisements. Yet no ads at all meant no revenue for them so they eventually gave in...somewhat. Google Search is the company's most important service. Less than 2 years after it's launch, it was the largest search engine in the country.  In addition to the many companies Google has purchased, the company has partnered with other organizations for everything from research to advertising.


With the tremendous growth, came some troubles. They begin to force the company to hire a professional CEO to head over the company. They recruited Steve Jobs (Apple creator) and many others. They wanted to bring in someone that had a more professional background and add insight to the growing company. They basically wanted someone that was a little older. Erin Schmidt was brought in and the company continued to grow even more, knocking out all the competition.


In addition to its standard web search services, Google has released over the years a number of online productivity tools. Gmail, a free webmail service provided by Google, was launched as a program in April 2004 and became available to the general public on February 2007. In October 2006, Google announced that it had acquired the video-sharing site YouTube for $1.7 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 2006. In 2011, Google made its largest-ever acquisition to date when announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12 billion. There lastest invention is Google Tv, where you can stream live videos through the internet to your home tv. In just 10 years, the company has become one of the fastest growing companies in the world.