Google, Chinese name is Google, website www.google.com, stock code GOOG, listed on Nasdaq, Google is the largest and most influential company on the Internet The search engine was co-created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Now, they are serving as Google's product president and technology president respectively. The company's strategic plan is to use Google to organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful. Google processes more than 200 million queries every day through different services. Its corporate headquarters "Googleplex" is located in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, USA.
In addition to searching web pages, Google also provides services for searching images, news groups, news web pages, and videos. As of June 2005, Google had stored more than 8 billion web pages, 130 million images, and more than 100 million newsgroup messages - a total of approximately 1.04 billion items. It also caches the content of the vast majority of web pages in the index.
Because of Google's reputation, "Google" as a verb means "looking for something on Google." It also means "searching the Internet" in a broad sense. Google officials do not encourage this habit of abusing their company name because it may lead to Google becoming a generic trademark name.
History
The Google search engine was started as a research project in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They were graduates of Stanford University's doctoral program. They developed the theory that the relationship between search engines and websites is based on mathematical analysis, which can produce better results than basic technology. This program is named "BackRub" because the system checks external website links to estimate the importance of the website. They believe that the other pages that are more relevant to that page, and the page that has the most links to it, must be one of the most relevant. Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to test their thesis and arrange funding for the search engine. The website named Google! is hosted on the google.com domain. On September 7, 1998, they officially founded the company of the same name - Google Inc. in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. Because Sergey Brin didn't know how to write HTML code to design web pages, Google's pages were initially just the most basic interface.
Google introduced advertising in 2000 and sold some keywords to make the ads more relevant to users. In addition, because text ads are arranged sequentially, it reduces the loading time and keeps the page neat. In September 2001, Stanford University and inventor Lawrence Page obtained the patent for Google's ranking algorithm PageRank?. At its earlier peak in 2004, Google controlled more than 80% of search queries on the entire Internet across search engines such as Yahoo, AOL, and CNN. Yahoo! has given up support for Google's search technology, and Google no longer provides sharing of its web searches.
Google search has humorous features. For example, the Google logo is cartoonishly modified at important moments (called Google Doodles). It chooses to display Google in fictional and humorous languages, such as Klingon (Starship). The language of the Klingons in Strange Voyage) and Leet, as well as making some jokes about the company on April Fool's Day (such as building a Google base on the moon, etc.).
Since Google's services such as Orkut, Gmail and Froogle will provide search results based on the actions taken by users before, some people think that Google will aim to provide personalized search. In fact, there is already an experimental personalized search in Google Labs.
Google name
Etymology
The name Google is a mathematical term, that is, 10 to the 10th power, which means 1 followed by 10 0s. . The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and popularized in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination" written by Kasner and James Newman. Google uses this term to reflect the company's mission: to organize the endless information on the Web.
Registered trademarks and domain names
"To google" is a verb, which means to use Google to search for something. This is because of Google's popularity (in January 2005, it owned 52% of the market of all search engines, but it was actually higher than 80%). Some people also interpret this term broadly as "searching on the Internet." Since doing so may dilute the significance of Google's registered trademark, Google does not encourage this use.
In order to avoid domain hijacking and mischief by some unscrupulous elements, Google has purchased copyrights to protect some domain names with similar pronunciations, such as gogle.com and googel.com.
Chinese name
Google's global Chinese name is "Google", which was released by Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Beijing, China on April 12, 2006. The meaning of "Google" is to sing with grain (here "gu" is the abbreviation of "grain"), "the song of sowing and expectation", and also the song of harvest and joy.
On the other hand, Google was registered in Taiwan as "GOOGLE INTERNATIONAL LLC" on February 15 earlier.
Before Google officially released the Chinese name, there were still some common names other than the original text, such as "ancient dog", "lone dog" and "dog".
In addition, Google's branch in Beijing once used "Gu Guo" as the Chinese translation for contract signing and online recruitment.
At around 1:00 a.m. on April 17, Beijing time (UTC+8), the word "Google" officially appeared on Google's simplified Chinese website. Shortly after the Chinese name was released, many users criticized the name. Later, some Chinese users launched an online signature campaign against "Google".
Search engine
~ 1998: 250,000
August 2000: 1.06 billion
January 2002 : 2.073 billion
February 2003: 3.083 billion
September 2004: 4.285 billion
November 2004: 8.058 billion web pages, 880 million pictures, 845 million newsgroup messages, 4,500 news messages
< p>June 2005: 8.058 billion web pages, 1.187 billion images, 1 billion newsgroup messages, 6660 print directories, 4500 news messages< /p>