'Technology giant' Google is 20 years old - 2 decades of changing lives

September 27, 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of one of the world's largest 'tech giants', Google. From just a search engine on the Internet, Google is now a technology company that every Internet user is using at least one tool or service provided by Google.

Google was founded by two Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, although the idea of ​​the tool was formed in early 1995, when Larry Page came up with the idea of ​​a tool Search engines can rank web pages that are searched by relying on the number of other websites linked to that site.

The birth of Google is considered one of the most important turning points in Internet history. After 20 years of existence and development, it is not so much to say that Google has changed lives today, when now, almost everyone of us, no one uses the search engine of Google or a Google service at least once a day.

Two co-founders Larry Page (left) and Sergey Brin in the garage where Google was born.

Tragically, Google doesn't know exactly his birthday

On September 4, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, then two doctoral students at Stanford University (USA), created the company Google Inc. Initially, Google was just a research project of Page and Brin in the process of studying a doctoral student.

Although it was founded on September 4, Google.com was registered on September 15, 1998, but Google often chose September 27 as its birthday.

It seems that even Google is not sure which day the company was founded, as evidenced by the fact that every year, Google celebrates birthdays on a different day.

The first special Google logo was changed for the first time on September 27, 2002.

Since 2002, Google often has the habit of changing the logo on its home page on every special occasion and, of course, it is no exception on the day of its establishment. In 2002, Google first changed the logo on the homepage to celebrate its founding on September 27, but by 2003, the company did this again on September 8 and it would be nothing. It is worth mentioning that if in 2004, Google chose to celebrate its founding as September 7.

By 2005, Google chose September 26 as the anniversary of its founding, and in 2006, Google returned on September 27, as the 2002 anniversary, to celebrate its birthday. And since 2006 until now, Google has remained the same on September 27 as the official day of establishment of the company.

Google once once explained why it was selected on September 27 to set up the company since 2006 so far, because September 27, 2002 was the first day the company changed the schedule. on the homepage to celebrate its founding, so want to keep this day as a memorable milestone.

Some interesting facts about Google that you may not know:

• Like many other big tech firms such as Microsoft or Apple, Google was born inside a car garage.
• Google's original name is BackRub: Between 1996 and 1997, Sergey Brin and Larry Page built a search engine called BackRub. After that, this project has been expanded into Google of today.

The name Google is a wordplay for the word 'gooogol' , with the meaning of number 1 accompanied by 100 zeroes behind, implying their task to create an infinite number of resources on the web. mine. And indeed they did.

• In fact, initially Sergey Brin and Larry Page plan to name 'Googol' for their search engine. However, investors who fill out a check to invest in this company have changed their name to 'Google'. And this name exists to this day.
• Both Larry Page and Sergey Brin are not good at designing and using HTML web programming language, so Google's first home page is rather meager.

Google test site interface in 1998.

• Only 1% of users search for results by clicking the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button (See the first page found). This is a button that users 'try their luck on' to get straight to the first page of the search results instead of displaying the list of results when searching. However, even many users do not know this function of Google.
• Two co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page built the first server for Google and contained it in a computer case assembled from Lego games. Earlier in his high school years, Larry Page also used Lego to assemble an inkjet printer.

The server is assembled with Google's Lego.

• While websites around the world want users to visit their website for as long as possible, Google is probably the only site that wants to shorten the time users spend visiting their site. Google has continually improved its technology and features to help speed up the search on Google.com to help users navigate to the website they need to search quickly.
• Like many big tech folks, Google also regularly acquires smaller technology companies to expand its product portfolio. Among the most successful Google-acquired companies, YouTube and Android are the most popular when YouTube becomes the world's largest video-watching site and Android becomes the world's most popular mobile platform.

The biggest 'blockbuster' that Google has made is the acquisition of Motorola's mobile division for up to $ 12 billion in 2012, but the deal has not been effective and Google has sold it. Motorola again for Lenovo after only 2 years at a price of only 2.91 billion USD.

Android is one of Google's most successful deals ever

• After 20 years of existence and development, Google has always been rated as one of the companies with the best working environment in the world and considered the company to have the most revolutionary technologies, surpassing Apple. No longer the "search giant" as before, Google has developed its product portfolio into a wide range of areas, including groundbreaking areas such as self-driving cars or coverage projects. Global wifi by hot air balloon .