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Google is not just the world's largest and most popular web search engine. Google provides multiple web services and desktop software products.
Google provides Internet services that let you create blogs, send email, and publish web pages. Google has social networking tools, organization tools, and chat tools, services for mobile devices, and even Google branded merchandise. |
What's a Google?
"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web. |
Google Apps is a collection of Google services that Google hosts from your domain. It's primarily marketed toward small business. As a business tool, it makes a lot of sense to add video sharing. Businesses often have internal videos that they'd like to share but not spread. However, putting those videos on an internal server can really tax your resources, especially if you have a lot of off site workers.
Google is working with publishers to make newspaper archives searchable through Google News. This is fantastic news for history buffs, researchers, and students. It's great news for publishers, too.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. |
Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborated at Stanford University on a search engine called "Backrub." The name came from the search engine's use of back-links to determine page relevance. This is a patented algorithm known as PageRank.
Brin and Page left Stanford and founded Google, Inc in September of 1998.
Google was an instant hit, and by the year 2000, Google was the world's largest search engine. By 2001 it did something that eluded most of the dot.com business startups of the time. Google became profitable. |
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| Google provides a lot of tools and services. Google’s search engine is the world’s largest web search engine, as well as the world’s most popular. Google is one of the five most popular websites in the world. Google is a web search engine that lets you find other sites on the web based on keyword searches. Google also provides specialized searches through blogs, catalogs, videos, news items and more. |
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