HISTORY OF GOOGLE:

• LARRY PAGE AND SERGEY BRIN MEET AT STANFORT 
• LARRY AND SURGEY BEING COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENTS BEGAN COLLABORTING ON SEARCH ENGINE CALLED  BACKRUB 
• THEY DECIDED NEW NAME FOR GOOGLE AND AFTER SOME BRAINSTROMING THEY WENT WITH GOOGLE, A MATHEMATICAL TERM  REPRESENTED BY NUMERAL 1 FOLLOWED BY 100 ZEROES
• SUN CO FOUNDER ANDY B WRITES A CHECK OF $100,000 TO ENTITY THAT DOES NOT EXIST YET TO GOOGLE INC.
• GOOGLE SETS UP WORKSPACE AT SUSAN WOJCICKI'S GARAGE
• PC MAGAZINE REPORTED GOOGLE AS SEARCH ENGINE OF CHOICE IN TOP 100 WEBSITES IN 1998
• THEY OUT THROW GARAGE OFFICE AND MOVED TO NEW DIGS AT POLO ALTO WITH JUST 8 EMPLOYEES
• GOOGLE HEADQUATERS MOVED TO MOUNTAIN VIEW NEAR TO STANDFORD UNIVERSITY NORTH OF SILICON VALLEY
• IN MAY 2000 THE FIRST 1000 VERSIONS OF GOOGLE.COM WAS RELEASED IN 10 LANGUAGES
• GOOGLE FORGE A PARTNERSHIP WITH YAHOO TO BECOME THEIR DEFAULT SEARCH PROVIDER
• GOOGLE ANNOUNCED BILLION URL INDEX AND BECOME WORLDS LARGEST SEARCH ENGINE
• IMAGE SEARCH LANCHED OFFERED 25 MILLION IMAGES
• GOOGLE OPENED ITS FIRST INTERNATIONAL OFFICE AT TOKYO
• INDEX SIZE GREW TO 3 BILLION WEB DOCUMENTS
• GOOGLE COLLABORATED OR OWNED MANY COMPANIES AND FINALLY BECAME THE WORLDS BEST AND LARGEST SEARCH ENGINE  

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