Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American listed company (public joint-stock company), which was founded on1September 7, 1998. It is a private joint-stock company that designs and manages Internet search engines. 20 10 On March 23rd, Senior Vice President david drummond made a public statement, announcing that the search service would be transferred from Chinese mainland to Hongkong. On April 3, 20 10, the name "Google" was abandoned and changed back to "Google China". On June 29th, 20 10, Google said that the ICP license for operating in China will expire on June 30th, and has not received a reply on the renewal of the license. After the ICP license expires, Google.cn website will not be able to continue to operate. At present, Google has prompted users in Google.cn to save the website of Hongkong Station. Sean Anderson, a creative student at Stanford University, brought the Google search engine and Google's name to Larry Page, the founder of Google. At that time, Anderson and Page were sitting in the office, trying to come up with a good name, a name that might be related to the massive data index. The word "googol" Anderson said refers to the power of 10/0. It is written in the form of the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which can be used to represent a large number of resources available on the Internet. At that time, Anderson was sitting in front of the computer. He searched the Internet domain name registration database to see if the name of this new invention had been registered and used. Anderson made a spelling mistake. He entered the word "Google". Com ",he found that this domain name can be used. The extended Gugor was invented by Milton Silota, the nine-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Casner, and was later quoted by mathematicians Edward Casner and James Newman in Mathematics and Imagination. Google's adoption of this word shows the company's ambition to conquer the endless information on the Internet. Another explanation of Google's meaning: G stands for hand, 00 stands for multiple ranges, L stands for length, and E stands for. If you put them together, it means that no matter where you are, we in Google can find a lot of things you want for you. The word "Google" can also be used as a verb now. For example, "Google something" is to search for the keyword "something" on the Google search engine. Google was originally called "BackRub". Before Page and Brin gave birth to the name Google because of spelling mistakes, Page called his project at Stanford BackRub. Blog website Blogoscoped believes that BackRub comes from the algorithm used by Page. The birth of Logo Google's Logo is as famous as Nike's tick and NBC's peacock pattern. Ruth Kedar, the designer of the Google logo, told the story of the birth of this logo representing the Google brand. Kaida and Google's two founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, met at Stanford University through friends nine years ago, when she was a teaching assistant. Page and Brin are worried about the logo of their upcoming search engine, so they ask Kedar to help design a logo prototype. "At that time, I didn't know that Google would be as ubiquitous as it is now, and I didn't know that it would be so successful," Kaida said. Google search project, the beginning of the company's history, was established by two doctoral students of Stanford University, Larry Page and sergey brin, in the early stage of 1996. They developed a search engine based on the accurate analysis of the relationship between websites, and its application results were better than the basic search technology used at that time. At that time, this project was called BackRub, because the system needed to check backlinks to estimate the importance of the website. Convinced that the page that gets the most links from other highly relevant websites must be the most relevant page, Page and Brin decided to test it as part of their research, which laid the foundation for their search engine. On1September 7th, 998, they formally established Google in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. Before moving to "Googleplex" later,1February, 1999, the company first moved into the office at 165, University Street, Palo Alto, California, where many famous new technology companies in Silicon Valley gathered. Google search engine has won Internet users with its simple and clean page design and the most relevant search results. Advertisements are sold in the form of keywords, so that they are only interested in the end users. In order to make the page design sustainable and fast, advertisements appear in the form of words. This concept of selling advertisements by keywords was originally developed by Overture (formerly Goto). com)。 Memorabilia 20065438+0 September, Google's webpage rating mechanism PageRank obtained a US patent. The patent was officially awarded to Stanford University, and Lawrence Page was listed as the inventor in the document. In February, 2003, Google acquired Pyra Lab, the owner of Blogger, a leading blog network service pioneer. It seems that this contradicts Google's mission. However, this actually consolidated the company's ability to improve the search speed of Google news and the search relevance of blog posts. At the peak of early 2004, 80% of the search requests on the World Wide Web were handled through its website and its client websites such as Yahoo, AOL, CNN and Google. In February 2004, Google's share dropped a little, because Yahoo gave up Google's search technology and decided to develop its own search engine. Google's code of conduct is to refuse to do all kinds of evil. Their websites often contain humorous functions, such as their icons changing humorously at specific times. Many people speculate that Google is interested in Yahoo. The response is that with the personal information collected from Orkut, Gmail and Froogle, Google will launch personalized search in the next step. In fact, Google Labs has a personalized search test page on its website. On July 19, 2005, Google announced that it would set up a research and development center in China. 65438+On February 20th, 2005, Google announced that it would spend $ 10 billion to acquire a 5% stake in AOL, an Internet service provider. In June 2006, Google acquired YouTube, an audio-visual content sharing website, for $654.38+65 million, which was the largest acquisition in Google's history. 10 On June 29th, Google bought the domain name "g .cn" from China 265 Network Company for about US$ 20 million, making it the shortest domain name registration in history. In 2007,165438+1October 5th, Google announced the name of the open source mobile phone operating system based on Linux platform as android. 2008-09-07 The launch of Google Maps satellite will provide high-definition photos with 50 cm resolution for Google Earth. In the same year, Google, the financial group HSBC and the international cable TV group LibertyGlobal formed a network plan called "O3bNetworks", which launched 16 satellites to bring network services to areas on the earth that are not connected to the network. The name O3b refers to the other 3 billion people on the planet who have no internet. It is hoped that through this network planning project, an environment with networking capability can be truly established in any region of the earth. 20 10 On September 9th, Google launched the new function "Google Instant". Google said on official website's function introduction page that the new search technology can display search results immediately when users enter terms. Google China On April 12, 2006, eric schmidt, CEO of Google Company, announced that the company's global Chinese name was "Google" (some reports pointed out the meaning of "Harvest Song" and others pointed out the meaning of "Valley Song"). At the same time, on February 15, 2006, the name of Google's branch company registered in Taiwan Province Province was "American Business Kegao International Co., Ltd.". Previously, in an award of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, the company was called "Kegao Company". The company also owns Chinese domain names such as "Google.cn", "Google China" and "Google.com" (excluding "Google China" and "Google Company"). Although users in China often refer to Google as "Gu Gou" or "Dog" in addition to its English name, its Chinese domain names "gu Gou.com", "gu Gou.cn" and "Gu Gou China" have been registered by other companies. In addition, Google Beijing Branch uses "Goo Guo" as a Chinese translation for contract signing and online recruitment. At about 1 am on April 17, 2006 (UTC+8), the word "Google" officially appeared on the Google Simplified Chinese website (only "Google" was displayed in other regions). Google China's interpretation of "Google" is "a song of sowing and expectation, but also a song of harvest and joy", and said that the name was voted by all employees of Google China. "Google" was criticized by many users shortly after its release. Subsequently, some China users launched an online signature campaign against Google. However, Google China insists on using "Google" as its official name, but there is still a phenomenon that "Google" and "Google China" are mixed in practice. 20 10 Google partially withdrew from the China market and moved its headquarters to Hongkong, China, because it did not agree with the China government's agreement on blocking bad information.