Google Inc. is an American multinational company specialized in products and services related to the Internet, software, electronic devices, and other technology services, but its main service is the search engine that gives name to the company and according to data from Alexa is the most visited site in the world.
The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. These two entrepreneurs met each other while studying at Stanford University in 1995. In 1996, they created a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of specific web pages. They decided to call the company Google, making a play on the mathematical term “googol” used to describe a number followed by a hundred zeros. Google Inc. was born in 1998 when Andy Bechtolsheim, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, wrote a check for $ 100,000 to this organization, which until now did not exist. At present the company has more than 70 offices across 40 countries and has over 50,000 employees.
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Vences, N.A., Segura, R.V. (2017). Google. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_104-1
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