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According to Google their mission statement is a "mission
is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible
and useful."
A Little History
Google has become the world's most popular search engine, it currently
indexes the largest number of web pages (over 8 billion). They first
opened their offices in California in September 7, 1998. Their first
beta search was launched in 1998. Google search results have been
used on a range of other web portals such as Yahoo, Looksmart, Aol
and BBC. Many people feel the name Google was developed from a dialog
in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams.
However the Google website says it came from a play on the word
"Googol", which was coined by Milton Sirotta. The word
"Googol" refers to the number represented by the numeral
1 followed by 100 zeros. Google have recently floated on the US
stock market (2004), and profits are soaring in 2005.
The Search Technology
Google states that it uses a fair amount of open source software
inhouse. The main search service currently (01/11/05) runs on Linux
with mySQL database software. The developers of the search code
use the Python programming language.
How do Google make so much money ?
Google's main income stream comes from Adsense. These are paid
advertisments on the search results page. They are displayed above
and to the side of the main Google search results. The Adsense results
are shown below in black boxes,
Direct Links
Founders of Google
Google's Email Service
- Gmail - The Gmail service was launched
on 1 April 2004.
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