Happy Birthday Google

Happy Birthday Google

Google turns 6 years old today in a birthday celebration that has seen much change over the years. On September 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control, as it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation’s staff of three. The office offered several big advantages, including a washer and dryer and a hot tub.

It also provided a parking space for the first employee hired by the new company: Craig Silverstein, now Google’s director of technology.

Already Google.com, still in beta, was answering 10,000 search queries each day. The press began to take notice of the upstart website with the relevant search results, and articles extolling Google appeared in USA TODAY and Le Monde. That December, PC Magazine named Google one of its Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines for 1998. Google was moving up in the world.

More on Google History: According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995

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Loren Baker is the founding editor/creator of Search Engine Journal and remains an advisor and Editor In Chief to this publication.

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  1. Tunde Aroun says:

    The next big thing could be Yumgo! – Search engines we put together ourselves.

    Try it and see…opps here is the address http://www.yumgo.com

    Tunde

  2. Giles says:

    I find it amazing how a garage has turned the internet from a mass of unorganized info to a simple easy interface that makes the world’s information much easier to access

    But I must say that the yumgo.com post above is noting more than an attempt to get your site known and that is all. In my opinion the ste you are premoting is nothing more than a bad attempt at a google knock-off. YOU EVEN USE THE GOOGLE SEARCH CODE!!! nice attempt but keep a website of that low caliber off of the article saying how good google is.

    And Gmail is sweet to.

  3. Faithlin Paul says:

    Yes Google has attained its number Uno in providing the most relevant webpages in the world of Internet. But still it covers only part of the Net. Hope to get Google more accurate in the Years to come. Long live the King (of Search)!!!.

  4. ehsan says:

    Yes Google has attained its number Uno in providing the most relevant webpages in the world of Internet. But still it covers only part of the Net. Hope to get Google more accurate in the Years to come. Long live the King (of Search)!!!.

  5. Erich says:

    I love you Google!!!!!!!!

  6. hobodog says:

    Google Rules

  7. blueflamedazn says:

    go google. numero uno infinite!

  8. John K says:

    Last night a Google search saved my life!

  9. Happy birth day To you Goooooooooooooogle

  10. Ben Holmes says:

    Giles is wrong I use Yumgo as my homepage and think it’s an excellent idea.

    Sure it looks very Google like, but that is what I like.

    I guess what the website creators are saying is here is a service that improves on Google…. Has Gile forgotten about meta search???

    Congratulations on a great website Yumgo.

    Happy birthday Google,

  11. dvd says:

    good URL!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  13. Happy Birthday Google, from me with heart

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