Google

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1-Introduction:

Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who met in 1995 at Stanford University as Ph.D students, the two began collaborating in the following year on a search engrain referred to as “Backrub” which was a system that checks backlinks or estimate the importance of a web site. Backrub was operating on Stanford servers for more than a year. On September 15, 1997 Google.com was registered as a domain. ‘The name-a play on word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numerical 1 followed by 100 zeros’ (Google, 2016), which shows their mission to seemingly organize an infinite amount of information on the web. In August 1998 Larry and Sergey received $100,000 check from their first investor Andy Bechtolsheim the founder of Sun CO, to an entity that doesn’t exist yet a incorporation known as google. Later in the same year on September 4, the company files for incorporation and setup a workspace in a Garage on Santa Margarita Ave. California. (Google, 2016), the new established company opened its first bank account to deposit Andy’s check. On the same month Larry and Sergey’s hired their first employee Craig Silverstone who is a computer science Ph.D. candidate. Since 2014 Google has moved to its current headquarter in Mountain View, California under the nickname of Googolplex. Current CEO: Sunder Pichai (Riely, 2016). Today Google is a multinational technology corporation that is specializing in the Internet and Internet related services as well as other products.

The acquisitions and partnership that Google made throughout the years have giving the incorporation a rapid growth and has triggered a chain of products beyond its main core search engrain, today google offers to the customers a large variety of products and services such as:

Online productivity software (Google Docs) including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web...