He reached out to another student at the university to help refine the math. Together, they named the algorithm they developed PageRank. They integrated the algorithm into a rudimentary search engine and set it on its way to start trolling the web. After one full year of implementing the algorithm, Page realized that he had discovered something massively important as the results it was returning back were far superior to any other search engine's results.
He also realized that as the algorithm got fed more data, the results were only going to keep getting better. More pages on the internet meant more links which meant more data on each site to establish its validity and relevance to a search.
The search engine's original name was BackRub, but they soon changed it to Google, a name picked to reflect the scale of the project. This initial PageRank algorithm formed the basis of Google and on January 9th, , Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the other student working with him, filed a patent with the U.
Patent and Trademark Office for a method of node ranking in a linked database. One interesting note is that they filed the patent under Stanford University, so Page and Brin licensed the use of the algorithm for their commercial endeavor from the school.
On September 4th of that same year, Google was officially founded. After nearly three years of operation, Google turned over the algorithm code to Amit Singhal, who first started at the company a year earlier. Singhal's key addition to the algorithm was rewriting its core structure so that the search engine could incorporate new ranking criteria more easily. The two students met by chance, as Page, 22 at the time considered attending Stanford University for his PhD while Brin, then 21, was assigned to show Page around campus.
The goal of the project was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library". The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, , and the company was incorporated on September 4, Google introduced Gmail on April 1, , in a hilarious announcement that was initially believed to be a joke. Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford to start Google and doesn't have a business degree.
The most famous product is Google Glass, a wearable computer that augmented information into your periphery and recorded videos and photos. The device became available to developers and a limited group of waitlisted customers, but not before it was criticized as a potential privacy risk as several businesses began banning Glass-wearers from entering the premises. ATAP would go on to build other notable projects including the Jacquard smart jacket and now-defunct Ara modular smartphone , while X span out as its own subsidiary that worked on moonshot projects.
RSS nerds all over the world cried out in horror when Google said it would shut down Reader in The company showed real courage, the type Apple would later apply to the beloved headphone jack. Thanks, Google. The Chromecast started as a tiny, cheap, no-frills way of streaming video from a phone or computer to a TV.
Five years later… literally none of that has changed, and Google has barely updated the product. But you know what? But whatever the price was, it was worth it. No doubt, they also provided incalculable value to Google for recruiting and marketing.
Google is widely seen as the world leader in AI. Google co-founder Larry Page decided to reorganize the giant conglomerate that Google became , thanks to its moonshots into a new company called Alphabet. To commemorate the reorganization, Google unveiled a new logo one month later on September 1st, Following its years of dabbling in consumer hardware with its Nexus program and other one-off devices, Google jumped into the deep end with the launch of the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones and Google Home smart speaker.
The Pixel was the first proper Android smartphone designed entirely by Google. Although it was still manufactured by a Google partner in this case, HTC , it marked a bold shift for Google toward a cohesive, Apple-style product ecosystem. Six years after testing its first autonomous cars, Google decided to spin the project out into a standalone business.
The company is already testing out offering rides to real customers in Arizona, and it plans to fully launch a commercial service in Although largely seen as a slap on the wrist that comes too little too late , the fine is part of a larger realization from policymakers and the public that Google, and its fellow Silicon Valley giants Facebook and Amazon, may have long since entered into monopolistic territory. Just one month after the fine, US President Donald Trump accused Google of manipulating search results to censor conservative news outlets.
Google likely has many more legal challenges ahead as it continues to grow far beyond the Stanford research project it started as 20 years ago.
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