Google Inc.
A Strategic Move
History
Sergey Brin and Larry Page met in spring 1995 at a gathering in Stanford University. Between January 1996 and December 1997, they created "BackRub", the precursor of Google search engine. The objective was to better organize and huge amount of data on the Internet. Eventually the name was changed to "Google" to signify the immense amount of information that resided on the Internet. Google is transformed from the word googol, referring to 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Brin and Page incorporated Google in 1998, just nine years ago, with $1 million dollars from family and investors. The quality of Google's search technology attracted a growing amount of users. Many companies had Google as its main web search engine. It took the company till 2001 to be profitable because of its great financial performance. From there they sold 19.6 million shares from which they raised $1.7 billion dollars.
Today, Google has continued to expand from being a......
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