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Founders of Google


Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google in September of 1998. Both Stanford U computer-science PhD dropouts, they created the search engine due to lack of information and time-consuming research for their PhD's. They were inspired by the USS Enterprise's omniscient computer, which lead to a company that now employs 5,000 worldwide.

The Road to Success
Through the first half of 1998 Brin and Page purchased a terabyte of disks and built an at-home computer housing unit for the disk space; google's first data center was born. Therefater, calls were placed to potential partners who could ehlp them with funding and direction. There were many rejections that came along with that, although it was during the heat heat of dotcom fever there weren't any interested buyers. Finally, Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, decided to invest $100,000 in the new company. Along with donations from family and friends, Google opened it's doors in September 1998. As time went on, Google's search queries began to increase and the media took notice. That December, Google was on the Top 100 Websites and Search Engines for 1998 List. As Google grew, so did their employee base, by February they were already at 8 employees. Leading entreprenuers began taking seats on the board, Mike Moritz (Sequoia) and John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) who together launched Sun Microsystems, Intuit, Amazon and Yahoo! to new heights. A major hire was that of Omid Kordestani, who left Netscape to become VP of business development and sales for Google. Google was growing at mind blowing speed, as a result they moved to Mountain View, California; now known as the Googleplex.

Clientele also started to expand. The Italian portal Virgilio and Virgin Net signed on as clients. New users were also being attracted on a daily basis. In May 200 the company received both a Webby Award and a People's Voice Award for their technology. That year Google hit a milestone, they were officially the worlds largest search engine. They had introduced a billion-page index.

Google has clearly conquered the World Wide Web, as they continue to expand and grow each and every year. Their search engine can be referred to as the worlds largest filing system ever. Housing billions of growing Internet content that is accessed daily by just as many people. The Internet has a very high turn-over rate and Google's keeping up very well. The car manufacturer Pontiac even uses references Google in their car ads, stating "just type in Pontiac Torrent on Google.com" to find their website". Based on their power purchase of YouTube last month for a reported $1.56 billion it is clear that Google is here to stay.