Google Turns 8!

But how old is that in Internet Years?

Published on September 27, 2006 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

It's been a few days since we had a news post about Google, so what better time to throw another one up, but to celbrate search engine company's 8th birthday? The little search engine that has helped change the world first launched as a research project in 1996 by Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has seen phenomenal growth since, due to its much-praised PageRank technology for determining relevant search results.

Some other relevant dates in Google History:

September 14th, 1997 - Google.com registered. The previous page, google.stanford.edu is migrated.
September 7th, 1998 - Google Inc incorporated at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, CA
September 21, 1999 - Google Search officially no longer in "Beta"

Google has a celebratory birthday image up on the main search page, much like they do for other noteworthy dates.

Comments

Robert_Snyder

on Sep 27, 2006

Happy 8th Birthday, Google! All hail the Little (Search) Engine That Could!

blackcat77

on Sep 27, 2006

Google is one of those things which has served to make the internet a part of peoples' lives. The ability to go to one site and find exactly what you want to know in the gigantic maze that is the internet is an accomplishment that few of us really appreciate.

Jafo

on Sep 27, 2006

The little search engine that has helped change the world

"change" .....or should that be "mutate"?.....

starkers

on Sep 28, 2006

"change" .....or should that be "mutate"?....

Or fornicate

, for the want of a better word.

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