"As a technology company I've tried to really stress that."Īnd as for the rest of the company, it continues to focus efforts on driverless cars, developing AI technology, and growing a neural network to help out its users. "I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do," Page said in an interview with Fortune. Page wanted the company to keep an artistic side rather than be completely tech-centered.
There's even a reason behind the Google Doodles. Source: Twitterįrom there, the company took off becoming the tech behemoth it is today. What the website looked like on launch day. Page and Brin wanted the name to represent the seemingly infinite number of information their search engine could provide. However, they eventually opted for a different spelling of the word "googol" (the number 1 with 100 zeros following it).
The guys initially named their creation "BackRub" due to the backlinks used to determine a site's rank. "We had a simple idea that not all pages are created equal. "We believed we could build a better search," Brin said in a 2005 interview with UC Berkeley News. Rather than rank results based on how many times appeared, the two figured out a system to rank websites based on relevance. "T his chance encounter was the happy surprise that started it all," noted the company's page.įrom that meeting, the two created a different type of search engine. Brin became the company's other co-founder, and without that fortuitous meeting, who knows where Google would've headed? Sergey Brin was assigned to show Page around campus. Google co-founder Larry Page arrived at Stanford in 1997 to pursue a Ph.D. Shan Hindz SeptemLooking Back on 19 Years If you haven't tried Google birthday spinner today. You can even look at Google's previous birthday Doodles or rediscover some of your favorite Doodles ever.
Nothing has made me feel old like seeing that it's Google's 19th birthday Who knows how much time 19 games from today will cost in terms of productivity? (And, in full confession, this writer is giving herself five minutes each to play Doodle games while writing this story.)
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