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Googling Google: Researching an Internet Success Story

Plenty of books have written about Google and how it started. In a nutshell, the business was founded by two men, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who first met in late 1995 when they were graduate students at the University of Michigan. They spent a lot of time and programming effort to come up with a complex algorithm for finding content on the Web with amazing accuracy.

It should come as no surprise that the best way to find out about Google is to Google the company history yourself. If you enter the search terms Google History on the home page (http://www.google.com), you will see that the first returned result is a link to Google Corporate Information: Google Milestones (http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html). This will reveal a comprehensive and up-to-date timeline detailing the company’s achievements. Here you will find personal anecdotes from and biographies of Larry and Sergey (who are shown below), as well as a detailed history of their company’s humble beginnings and remarkable growth. Don’t be afraid of being bored. You won’t be. It’s all told with the straightforward and laid-back style that have become synonymous with the name Google.

For more information, you can also scroll down to the bottom of any page on the Google website and click on the link labeled About Google (http://www.google.com/about.html). This will take you to a map of all of the products, services, and support features that Google offers, as well as provide links to more corporate information.