The use of Google has only been on the rise as more and more people have access to the internet and smartphone. The brand is said to have more than 90% market share as a preferred search engine! When it comes to being a search engine, nobody does it better than Google. What is Google or Googol, you ask? Well, it is the mathematical term for one with a hundred zeros (just about all the information that Google makes accessible to all of us.) However, they finally settled on Google, which is a mis-spelling of Google. If we tell you that the original name of Google was Backrub, would you believe us? Well, that's the truth. Today, we’re blowing out 23 candles in our room 🤭🎂 #GoogleDoodle /xYSdpCl9vV In fact, it has been the most visited website for many years now.Two computer science students just so happened to build a search engine in their dorm rooms in 1998. Google is now the most visited website worldwide. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page. In their own words: 'Every day, there are billions of searches on Google in more than 150 languages around the globe, and while much has changed from the early days of Google, from its first server housed in a cabinet built out of toy blocks to its servers now being housed in more than 20 data centers globally, its mission of making the world’s information accessible to everyone remains the same.' The search engine, as of today, searches in more than 150 languages around the globe. Google actually went public in 2004 and was reorganised as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Twenty-three years later, Google is just everywhere. Just a year later, the two started their search engine together in their dorm rooms with a very basic first prototype.

Brin was assigned to Page, who was considering Stanford for graduate school at the time, around campus. students at Stanford University in California at the time.īut their conversations began a year earlier when Brin was already a student at the university. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were Ph.D. As Google turns 23 today, the company has decided to mark the special day with a special cake doodle on its homepage, as it does for so many other events and personalities.

Google's 23rd birthday