Hello friends. This is our everything - search engines. Some twenty years ago, the phrases “google”, “Google to help you” or “forget it in Yandex” could puzzle any person, but now even small children understand them. Here is the history of the creation of Yandex and Google, the most popular search engines that make our lives easier every day and bring billions to their creators.

History of Google

Google first appeared in America, namely on the territory of Stanford University, where its founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met. Their meeting was completely accidental. Lari, along with other students, just came on a tour of Stanford University, and Sergey Brin turned out to be his guide. They both had Jewish roots, but unlike Larry, who was a Native American, Sergei was from Russia. He moved to America when he was still a schoolboy. Later, a chance meeting and the ensuing conversation grew into a strong friendship.

The idea of ​​creating a good search engine appeared to the guys about a year after they met, when two young graduate students decided to surprise their teachers. They created a search engine called "PageRank". People quickly fell in love with it, surprising them with its quality of information search. It became much easier to find it, in other search engines, links with more keywords were the first to appear, that is, information was searched for by the number of similar words in the text, and the meaning was very lame. When creating his search engine, Larry took the works of scientists as a model. The scheme was as follows - the better the robot was, the more people referred to this scientist. The search engine worked the same way: the better the information was, the higher it rose among the links.

Why Google is Google?

In order for the system to work, it remains only to choose a name. It should have been short and interesting. The creators considered more than fifty names, but after careful selection, Brin and Page still settled on the term "googol", which means one to the hundredth degree. Thus, already in 1997, students and teachers at Stanford University were able to evaluate all the advantages and disadvantages of the new creation.

Design

Many users have fallen in love with the search engine just for the simplicity of its design. As it turned out, colored letters on a white background were not the original idea of ​​brilliant programmers. It was all that Larry and Sergey had the money for, not to mention hiring designers. They, as they say, made everything "simple and tasteful."

heyday

1998 was a turning point in the development of Google. It was then that Google Inc was registered, the first office was rented (in fact, it was an ordinary garage), the first employees were hired, and the first check was received from the investor - millionaire Andy Bechtolstein for 100 thousand dollars. And then Google moves from office to office, signs a contract with another major American corporation, conquers Sydney and South America, and acquires the Blogger publishing service in the United States. The second most important year was 2004, when the stock market first saw the shares of a successful company, and its founders became billionaires.

Development

Every year, Google is actively developing and comes up with new services and developments. So, the most popular today are Google Plus- a social network that was created not so long ago in 2011, so that people can communicate via the Internet.

• Google Docs is a service where you can store text documents, various presentations and spreadsheets.
• Google Drive is a service for storing private information. Each person can store up to 15GB of information and access it from anywhere in the world.
• Gmail is email.
• Maps - geographical maps. They are convenient in that you can calculate the route by mileage and time.
• Play is a game application store.
• Picasa is a service for working with applications.
• News is a collection of news from around the world. They are formed from the titles of publications and are displayed depending on the user's preferences.
• Google has also created its own personal browser Google Chrome, which is one of the most user-friendly and commonly used browsers in the world today.

History of Yandex creation

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Arkady Volozh — Founder of Yandex

Yandex appeared in Russia on September 23, 1997. One of its founders was the Russian programmer Arkady Volozh. He wanted to create a system that would be able to find information in large volumes, and, importantly, would take into account the morphology of the language. But before that it was still far away, and Volozh, together with his teacher of English language In 1989, he founded CompTek, a company that sold computers. In the same year, Arkady stubbornly continued to achieve his goal, therefore, together with another friend Arkady Borkovsky, he created the Arcadia company for the development of search and information systems. In 1993 the two firms merged. At the same time, a program was created for searching on the hard drive of a computer.

Mystery of the name

The program had to be named somehow, but there was no suitable name. We also considered the option of the name “Search”, but since we wanted to show that the system was developed in Russia, therefore, it was necessary to introduce an element of the Russian language, and the word search was not clear to a Russian person. The word "Yandex" was suggested by Volozh's school friend Ilya Segalovich, who later became director of technology. He considered that the word "index" is more in harmony with the Russian language, but since the system was not the first in Russia, the phrase "yet another index" (another indexer) came to his mind. As a result, "Yandex" appeared, and it was decided to replace the first "Ya" with the Russian "I".

Development

In the same 1993, the first search dictionary was created, which, as Volozh wanted, took into account the morphology of the Russian language. And the very next year, the "Bible Computer Reference" was created.

In 1995, they decided to launch a search engine on the Internet, but initially it worked only with selective resources, and later with all Russian-speaking ones. The turning point and the official birthday of Yandex is September 23, 1997, when the search engine was first exhibited at the Softool exhibition.

At the time when Yandex appeared on the Internet, it was not the only search engine. Many preferred the same Rambler or Altavista, which was the most popular search engine in Russia at that time. But Yandex was rapidly gaining momentum, and by mid-1999, Yandex brought the owners about 72 thousand dollars. In 2000, RuNetHolding invested good money in Yandex, but still had to sell part of the shares. It was then that Yandex became a separate company, with its own structure, budget and management. CEO Yandex became Arkady Volozh.

In the same year, Yandex expanded its capabilities: Yandex bookmarks, Yandex.mail, Postcards appeared. The staff of the company has also increased. Another significant advance was the emergence of Yandex Bar - specialized software.

All this influenced the fact that next year Yandex became the number one in terms of attendance in the Runet. Yandex continued to develop. Yandex Pictures and Yandex Money appeared. With each subsequent year, Yandex only actively developed and expanded its staff.

Design

Initially, Yandex's design was as simple as Google's. The name of the search engine was written on the main page, as well as sample queries and a couple of hot news. The design was finalized in several stages. So the second stage was in 1999. Then design home page Yandex has already become sick close and even looks like a real one. Categories have been improved, and windows with mail, advertising, forums, etc. have appeared. In 2001, the main page of Yandex was improved and was already approaching the current version. final version The main page was changed in 2003, after which the design did not change dramatically, but was only refined in places.

Thus, Google and Yandex have gone though not a long, but very actively developing way of becoming. None of the search engines stands still today and every day develops more and more new services to make life easier. These are the world's leading search engines, handling millions of queries daily. Many people can no longer imagine their lives without these magic wands - they have become so commonplace.

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Being an Internet user and not knowing what it is is simply impossible, because this search engine is one of the most popular in the world. But not all users know that it has grown from an ordinary student project. It is interesting that those who created Google did not initially count on any, but set up a kind of experiment, which then grew into a full-scale and very profitable project.

Who Invented Google?

When it comes to who is the creator of the Google system, advanced users most often remember one name - Sergey Brin, completely forgetting about his partner Larry Page. Probably, the reason for such neglect is the great media activity of Sergei, who was more visible on TV and in the media, trying to promote his offspring, while his co-author went deep into Scientific research and study. But, be that as it may, the Google system was really created by two people, so speaking about the history of both the search engine itself and the company of the same name, one should fairly highlight the contribution of both partners to the common cause.

And it all started back in 1996, when both future billionaires studied at Stanford University and had to take an annual science project. They became the Back Rub search engine, which a year later grew into the actual Google search engine, and a year later became the Google Corporation. It is noteworthy that the birthday of the new system is celebrated on September 15, but sometimes it is celebrated a week earlier or later. The creators came up with a brand name for their product using a play on words: they took the English name 10 to the hundredth power, which is written as googol, and distorted it a little, making it unique and recognizable.

After obtaining a patent for the Google.com domain, the partners thought about creating their own company in order to be able to develop their offspring. To do this, they had to look for investors, and as soon as the first financial injection in the amount of $ 100 thousand was received, the new enterprise immediately received a permanent residence permit and official registration in a garage in the town of Mento Park, owned by one of Sergei and Larry's friends. However, a year later, the partners move to Palo Alto in the Mountain Bay complex and since then this place has been called nothing more than Googleplex. The head office of the world-famous corporation is still located here.

How do the creators of Google live today?

Currently, 43-year-old US citizen Sergey Brin lives in California, in the town of Los Altos. It is noteworthy that his homeland is the USSR, from where his parents brought him at the age of 5. In 2006, he married Ana Wojcicki, a biologist by profession, they had a son and a daughter, but in 2013 the couple divorced. In 2016, the authoritative Forbes magazine named Sergey 13 in the TOP of the richest people in the world, but the young billionaire does not boast of his wealth and lives quite modestly, donating huge amounts to charity and scientific projects. He is actively published in American and foreign academic periodicals and willingly takes part in various scientific and technical forums, and also appears on television.

Another founder of Google, Larry Page, also recently celebrated his 43rd birthday and was recognized by Forbes as the 14th richest person in the world. He is happily married to Lucy Southworth, has two children and lives in a large house in Palo Alto. He also actively spends money on charity and various research projects, for example, to develop a way to undermine asteroids approaching the Earth, and also finances the release of books for children.

Today, many of us simply cannot imagine a world without such giants of the technology industry as Google, Facebook, Twitter and others. Although, of course, there were times when these companies did not exist, and their founders were ordinary people, like you and me.

Of course, how they achieved success can be an interesting story with a happy ending, which will teach each of us something. It is not for nothing that many ordinary Internet users are so interested in the biographies of well-known companies, and at the same time, the people who stand behind them. For such, in fact, this article will be published.

In it, we will tell the story of the formation of one of the most famous brands in the world - a search engine, the name of which is spelled with two "o" (in English). And no, it's not Yahoo. Our story will be dedicated to those who are called "the founders of Google" - two business partners, one of whom has Russian roots.

How it all started

Surprisingly, the development of the modern Internet giant began back in 1996. Then two graduates of Stanford University - Larry Page and Sergey Brin - worked on a common project. The purpose of the latter was to systematize information in the form of a catalog and its further processing. At the time of the creation of such a product, the founders of Google, of course, did not know what all this could result in. They were, in fact, simple graduate students who came up with an original approach. He, in turn, repeatedly justified himself.

At the initial stage, as is known from many sources, the developers of the Backrub project experienced a significant lack of finances. For this reason, they often had to literally assemble functional solutions from parts of obsolete computers that had become unusable. Despite this, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, were able to show good results already in 1997. More and more people at the university began to learn about their information search system on the Internet.

Finding a buyer

Few people know, but in 1998, shortly after the start of the development of their technology, the founders of Google intended to sell all the results of their work. There were several reasons for this - the guys did not want to continue working on the project; they understood that they could just make good money on this innovation and start something new, more interesting. In order to find an interested buyer, they even set up a special office. Some connections (in particular, with the founder of Yahoo, the largest search engine at that time), the founders of Google were able to establish. True, David Filo was not interested in the system at the level to invest in it. He advised the guys to further refine their search project (even then it was called Google), and if they succeeded, they would sell it already in finished form.

First office

It is noteworthy, but the first office space, which housed three employees of the company, was a garage. His guys rented in Menlo Parenna (California). At this point, the service was already available on the Internet; every day it was visited by about 10 thousand people who were looking for information of one kind or another.

The success that every founder of Google has achieved, even at that time, can be called unlikely. This is evidenced by the fact that some authoritative US publications have placed the site in the "Top 100" rating of technological portals in the world.

The dizzying growth continued. In 1999, the company processed about 500,000 requests per day on its portal. The founders of Google, whose photo you see below, were able to attract several investments from advanced funds totaling $ 25 million. The money went to buy servers and expand the capabilities of the search engine.

Larry Page

If we talk about this figure at Google, then, after reading the biography of Page, you will not be surprised by the choice of his profession. Larry's parents are a professor of computer science and a programming teacher. He was born in 1973, and today, at 42, Page is a dollar billionaire. This founder of Google deservedly enters the top twenty of the Forbes.com rating with his fortune.

According to media reports, he is married, lives in the US and owns his own Boeing 767.

Sergey Brin

For us, Brin's biography is more interesting, if only for the reason that this founder of Google is Russian. According to data from the public domain, at the age of 6 he left Moscow, where he lived with his parents - teachers of Moscow State University (Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty). Later, Brin's father began to work at Stanford, and his mother went to NASA. Studying for a master's degree at the same university, Sergey became interested in search engines, as a result of which he began the first steps to create Google back then.

On the this moment Brin is married and has a son. Like Page, he is in the top 20 Forbes rankings of his wealth.

Basis for success

As we can see, the success in the field of Internet search and development of online services, the founders of Google, Sergey Brin (photo below) and Larry Page, did not find it by chance. In fact, such a sharp rise was preceded by a long work. Both were from an intelligent family of specialists in mathematics and technology. Both grew up in the United States - the land of technological opportunities at that time. Every founder of Google worked hard to improve search technology, with building a company and making money last in line. This is evidenced by the fact that a private company based on this technology was created after its repeated testing. Moreover, the guys wanted to sell their work and "disperse" in their own interests. There are even rumors that at the beginning of joint work they could not even tolerate each other because of too different characters. However, as we see, fate decided otherwise.

Building positions

The growth of Google's presence in the Internet search market has been enormous. At that time, Yahoo, WebAlta, AltaVista were the undisputed leaders. As you know, today none of them can compete with Google in terms of its capitalization. In a very short time, a little-known university project was able to bypass the “sharks of business”.

Experts believe that the explanation for the fact that Google founder Sergey Brin and his partner Larry Page were able to consolidate their efforts so successfully lies in the idea. It was to develop a perfect search technology. At the same time, companies like Yahoo at that time paid attention to profits and income from other types of business. The direction of Internet search as of 98-99 was considered unprofitable and unpromising. Perhaps Page and Brin simply did not know about it.

Creation of new businesses

But today, when the Google search engine is the absolute and undisputed leader in search throughout the world, the development team conducts completely different types of business. It can be said that after a successful start in the field of searching and systematizing information, the founders of the system began to work in other areas.

In particular, this is the Youtube video blogging service (which is the leader in terms of the volume of videos posted on it); Blogger.com, the most popular blogging platform, Google Plus social network, Google Drive, advertising Google Adsense and much more. We will tell a little more about each of these types of business from the search giant in separate parts of the article.

Social networks

The most popular projects, as time has shown, are social networks. This is explained by the fact that people by nature tend to communicate, establish relationships with each other, make acquaintances, and so on. One of the most famous in the world is the service launched by the search engine - it is called Google Plus. This is an identification platform that not only allows the user to find his friends and communicate with them, but also makes it possible to express his opinion about a particular resource on the Internet by leaving the appropriate "label" - the so-called "plus". This, in turn, contributes to the improvement of the mechanisms developed by Google to evaluate sites. Those who receive more "pros" deserve a higher position in search results. As of 2013 in social network over 500 million registered users.

For the company, thanks to the merger of different services together, a single image is created, positions in different niches are strengthened solely due to the name. For the user, which is important, it increases convenience and comfort in work. A person, as already mentioned, does not need to move from one account to another - for all this there is a unified authorization system. There is no need to use it third party services- all tasks can be completed quickly and easily on one site, and that is Google.

Mobile platforms

Speaking about the achievements of the search giant, one cannot fail to mention the world's most popular mobile operating system. To be more precise, android history started as another startup that served as a platform for work mobile devices. Google bought it in 2005. For many specialists in the IT industry, this was a real surprise - few could say why the search engine needed the development of a mobile OS. Today, years after that deal, everyone can say that this step was very successful. According to platform distribution statistics, in 2014 there were more than 1.6 billion devices with this operating system in the world, which accounted for about 75% of the entire market. With such indicators, even the leader in the production of mobile Apple devices which has its own operating system iOS, which is often contrasted with Android, cannot compete for the market in this scenario.

Although the site is open-sourced (some device manufacturers can create their own modifications of this OS), Google's earnings on it are significant due to, for example, the same Google Play- content store. In addition, manufacturers using the platform must pay licensing fees.

prospects

It is difficult to assess the full breadth of prospects that are open to such a strong player in the IT market as Google. The company is growing every day by expanding its catalog of businesses, constantly buying up the most promising startups. It is now hard to imagine that any other brand could overcome Google in the field of Internet search. We can safely say that while the positions of this giant remain unshakable for any of the competitors, including the popular search engines Bing, Yahoo, Aol, Yandex, Baidu and others, due to certain circumstances. All over the world, the Google brand is known as a leader, and this will not change soon.

In general, you know who the founders of Google are and how they managed to create this empire. For each of us, this story can be a good lesson that everything in this life is possible. The main thing is to strive to achieve your goals and constantly work on yourself.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin's search engine design is based on the principle of assessing the importance of a web page, which should depend on how many other pages have linked to it. Thus began the development of the Backrub search engine, which was later renamed Google.

The word "Google" is increasingly associated with the word "search" by an ordinary Russian user. “I googled here” - this phrase is already becoming familiar and mundane.

search engine Google system constantly on everyone's lips, and in the center of attention of the Internet public. This is not surprising - the constant introduction of new services and features makes this system one of the most popular and widespread throughout the world. Google, as a project, was born within the walls of Stanford University. Two students, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page, who were studying computer science at the time, were interested in the idea of ​​finding the right information in a large amount of data.

In the process of solving this problem, the BackRub search server was developed, which analyzes the so-called back links - back links that pointed to a particular page. To create a server, friends combined several ordinary university machines. Little by little, the system began to work, gain popularity, and became known outside the university. It became clear that in order to develop the project further, funds are needed, and considerable ones.

At the very beginning, the founder of Yahoo!, David Filo, helped with financing, and by the beginning of 1998, Brin and Page managed to attract more than a million dollars of investment into their project. On September 7, 1998, Google Inc was registered and its first office was opened.

The name of the company comes from the word googol (googol) - the number ten to the hundredth power. The logic here is simple - friends wanted to make all the information on the Web available for search, and named their service accordingly. After the first office of the company was opened (located, by the way, in the car wash building), its staff was replenished with one more employee. It was Craig Silverstone, who is today the director of technology at Google.

The search engine continues to grow and attract more and more new users, processing about 10 thousand requests per day. The relevance of the search was so high that the project came to the attention of the media, who began to praise its merits on their pages. More and more people will learn about Google in this way.

In 1999, the company moved to the first full-fledged office in Palo Alto, California. The company already has 8 employees at this time, and the number of requests processed by the system has increased to 500,000 per day. Google at this time had its first financial partner, Red Hat, which initiates the installation of most search servers Linux operating system companies. After some time, Google managed to receive investments from two of the largest venture capital companies in Silicon Valley - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Sequoia Capital, in the amount of $ 25 million. Representatives of these companies, by the way, later joined the directors of Google.

Having received such a powerful financial injection, the company begins an active recruitment of well-known IT specialists, including masters such as Omid Kordestani and Urs Hölzle. Due to the increase in staff, Google is moving again, this time to a "permanent residence" in Mountain View in California.

When the number of requests reaches 100 million per day, Google removes the Beta prefix, and becomes a full-fledged search engine. New system literally blew up cyberspace, forcing all the newspapers to write about itself, and such an authoritative magazine as Time includes Google in the top ten best IT technologies in 1999.

The company begins cooperation with Yahoo! , the search engine code is added to their pages by the large Chinese portal NetEase and the Japanese Neg Biglobe. The next conquest of the Internet space was the creation of the AdWords contextual advertising service. Thus, the company managed to attract small businesses, for which search advertising turned out to be a very effective tool.

By 2000, Google's servers are already processing more than 100 million requests per day. Accordingly, the company's income also increased, and in 2001 Google announced the self-sufficiency of the project. The study of the “subsoil” of the World Wide Web continues, the service extracts more and more new volumes of information. In particular, the company is engaged in the very laborious process of converting the largest Usenet archive on the Web into a searchable format.

The beginning of the new century became a kind of springboard for Google in conquering the global cyberspace - some radical observers even began to accuse the company of a tendency to monopoly, like Microsoft did in its time. In 2004, Google is declared the brand of the year, and the number of search queries exceeds 4 billion per day. The company also launches a free mail service Gmail.

In November 2006, Google bought the largest video service on the Internet, YouTube, for $1.65 billion. In 2008 the Internet public receives new browser from Google - Chrome. Next up is your operating system. This is a real threat to the Microsoft monopoly, which is already seriously alarmed by such a competitor. Especially after the release of the Android OS, designed for mobile devices.

Summing up, we can say that Google has made a rapid rise in just ten years of existence, and is very confident and optimistic about the future. The company's net profit in 2008 was over $6.5 billion. With such funds, Google is able to implement all ten hundredth of its ideas, and constantly delight users with new features and services.

The mobile version of Google Docs received a text editing function.

Company Google Inc. founded in 1998 (date of registration - September 4, 1998) by Sergey Brin (Sergey Brin) and Larry Page (Larry Page). Brin and Page met at Stanford University and began working together on a project that would become Google. According to the company's founders, "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful to all."

Today the company has more than ten thousand employees worldwide. Brin is President of Technology, Page is President of Products.

Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive officer, joined Google from Novell in 2001. Under his leadership, Google has significantly expanded its infrastructure and product range. His wealth of experience has been well prepared to lead the development of user-centric technology solutions. Together with the company's founders and other members of the leadership team, Schmidt is responsible for the company's technical and business strategies.

Google headquarters is located at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043.

One of the most important activities of the company is the issuance of search results (and other information) in real time.

In addition to the search engine, Google provides users with various online services. Among the most popular are Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps and others.

The company owns a popular video hosting YouTube and the online photo editor Picasa, which allows you to process photos and form web albums from them.

Google Mail Service with virtually unlimited storage space for messages, internal search and "smart" anti-spam system. It has a standard mode and a basic HTML version that switches to automatically when you sign in to Gmail with a browser that isn't fully supported.

Google Docs

Online application for joint remote work on documents. Google Docs allows you to add Microsoft documents Word, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, or regular text files, create documents from scratch, and upload your own online documents; modify documents on the Internet simultaneously with any users you choose and invite other people to view these documents; publish documents on the Internet; send documents to e-mail like applications.

Google Docs also provides for work with tables, presentations and illustrations.

Google Maps

A Google service that offers user-friendly map search technology and local business data, including address, contact information, and driving directions. You can work with maps in three display options: satellite photos, maps, and a hybrid of the first two maps. It supports searching for a point by latitude and longitude.

The service also includes the service "Google Traffic", "Google Places", mobile versions cards, designer of individual cards, etc. With the help of Google Street View, you can explore panoramic 3D images of various settlements of the world.

Google Earth

Google Earth is a client installed on the user's computer. With it, you can travel the world with a virtual globe and view satellite photos, maps, landscape, 3D buildings and more. Google Earth also allows you to virtually explore the sky, dive into the ocean, walk on the moon and fly to Mars.

What is Google?

A googol is a mathematical term for a one followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and first described in Kasner and James Newman's Mathematics and the Imagination.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from the official website