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D. students at Stanford University. 2In the search of a dissertation theme, Page had been consideringamong other thingsexploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph. 3 His supervisor, Terry Winograd, encouraged him to pick this idea which Page later recalled as the best advice I ever got4 and Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, based on the consideration that the number and nature of such backlinks was valuable information about that page with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind. 3In his research project, nicknamed Back. Rub, Page was soon joined by Brin, who was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. 5 Brin was already a close friend, whom Page had first met in the summer of 1. Page was part of a group of potential new students that Brin had volunteered to show around the campus. 3 Both Brin and Page were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project SDLP. The SDLPs goal was to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library and it was funded through the National Science Foundation, among other federal agencies. 5678Pages web crawler began exploring the web in March 1. Pages own Stanford home page serving as the only starting point. 3 To convert the backlink data that it gathered for a given web page into a measure of importance, Brin and Page developed the Page. Rank algorithm. 3 While analyzing Back. Rubs outputwhich, for a given URL, consisted of a list of backlinks ranked by importancethe pair realized that a search engine based on Page. Rank would produce better results than existing techniques existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page. 39Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. 1. Some Rough Statistics from August 2. Total indexable HTML urls 7. Million. Total content downloaded 2. Back. Rub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on a Sun Ultra II with 2. GB of disk. Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved and deserves many thanks. Larry Page 1. 1Late 1. Originally the search engine used Stanfords website with the domain google. The domain google. September 1. 5, 1. They formally incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1. Susan Wojcickis garage in Menlo Park, California. Both Brin and Page had been against using advertising pop ups in a search engine, or an advertising funded search engines model, and they wrote a research paper in 1. They changed their minds early on and allowed simple text ads. 1. By the end of 1. 99. Google had an index of about 6. The home page was still marked BETA, but an article in Salon. Googles search results were better than those of competitors like Hotbot or Excite. Yahoo, Excite. com, Lycos, Netscapes Netcenter, AOL. Go. com and MSN. com which at that time, during the growing dot com bubble, were seen as the future of the Web, especially by stock market investors. 1. In March 1. 99. 9, the company moved into offices at 1. University Avenue in Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups. 1. After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1. Amphitheatre Parkway from Silicon Graphics SGI in 2. The company has remained at this location ever since, and the complex has since become known as the Googleplex a play on the word googolplex, a number that is equal to 1 followed by a googol of zeros. In 2. 00. 6, Google bought the property from SGI for US3. The Google search engine attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design. 1. In 2. 00. 0, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords. 2 The ads were text based to maintain an uncluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed. 2 Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and click throughs, with bidding starting at. This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto. Overture Services, before being acquired by Yahoo Yahoo Search Marketing. 1. While many of its dot com rivals failed in the new Internet marketplace, Google quietly rose in stature while generating revenue. 2Googles declared code of conduct is Dont be evil, a phrase which they went so far as to include in their prospectus aka S 1 for their 2. IPO, noting that We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better servedas shareholders and in all other waysby a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. 2. In 2. 00. 8, Google launched Knol, their own equivalent of Wikipedia,2. In 2. 01. 1, the company launched Google, its fourth foray into social networking, following Google Buzz launched 2. Google Friend Connect launched 2. March 1, 2. 01. 2, and Orkut launched in 2. September 2. 01. 42. As of November 2. Google operated over 7. In 2. 01. 5, Google reorganized its interests as a holding company, Alphabet Inc., with Google as its leading subsidiary. Google continued to serve as the umbrella for Alphabets Internet interests. 2. Financing and initial public offeringeditThe first funding for Google as a company was secured in August 1. US1. 00,0. 00 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist. 2. On June 7, 1. 99. Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital. 2. While Google still needed more funding for their further expansion, Brin and Page were hesitant to take the company public, despite their financial issues. They were not ready to give up control over Google. Following the closing of the 2. Sequoia encouraged Brin and Page to hire a CEO. Brin and Page ultimately acquiesced and hired Eric Schmidt as Googles first CEO in March 2. In October 2. 00. IPO, Microsoft approached the company about a possible partnership or merger. 3. The deal never materialized. In January 2. 00. Google announced the hiring of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange an IPO. The IPO was projected to raise as much as 4 billion. Googles initial public offering took place on August 1. A total of 1. 9,6. Of that, 1. 4,1. 42,1. Google and 5,4. 62,9. The sale raised US1. Google a market capitalization of more than 2. Many of Googles employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo, a competitor of Google, also benefited from the IPO because it owns 2. Google. 3. 6The company was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol. GOOG. When Alphabet was created as Googles parent company, it retained Googles stock price history and ticker symbol. Growth, 2. 00. 3 2.