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Essay / The History of Google - 731
Google is the main search engine used on the Web. Google was born from an idea in the heads of two Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met at Stanford in 1995 when Sergey was asked to show new student Larry around. When they started to get to know each other better, they decided to create a search engine. Their initial plan was for a small engine called BackRub. Their research, their results and their name did not go far. They started again and invented a search engine that can produce an infinite number of results, a Googol number of results, and Google was created. At first, Google was used at Stanford and quickly spread to America. Later, Google exploded on all computers in the United States. When people wanted to find something quickly, they looked on Google. Access to everything you wanted was, for the first time on the web, at your fingertips. Faster than anything, the search engine changed encyclopedias and dictionaries with the press of a button. In 1998, Google started having fun. Larry and Sergey decide to go to the Burning Man festival in Arizona. This trip sparked a series of flavors on the Internet. The first Google Doodle depicted the iconic Man on Fire peeking out from behind the Google logo. As Google grew, Larry and Sergey couldn't manage everything, so they hired their first employee, Craig Silverstein. He continued to work for over ten years. In December, Google was on the top 100 list and kept improving. At the start of the new millennium, Google won its first Webby Awards. More and more people started using Google, but a recurring problem emerged. How can people who speak another language get results? The solution lies in the top ten languages that can be read by Google search. They are French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish. A year later, Google Images was launched. A program where someone can create images for whatever they want. As Google began to become more and more popular in America, they decided to open an international office in Tokyo. At the end of the year, Google released Zeitgeist, a look at Google searches and trending headlines from that year. In 2002, AdWords was launched..