1995: Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford
1996: Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.
1997: How the name Google came to be: Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
April 2010: What Google has done for science: Scientists announce a significant new hominid fossil discovery made with help from Google Earth, in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa.
September 2010: Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica imagery comes to Street View. Now, three years after we first launched Street View in five U.S. cities, you can explore all seven continents at eye level!
But be aware – you’re being watched. Type in your address in the link below and see what appears!
http://www.google.com/about/company/history.html
finance.yahoo.com/charts
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