What is Google?

Sergey Brin, the co-founder of the company and the inventor of the system, once explained the phenomenon of his brainchild. From an interview for Search Engine Watch: “Some say that Google is God. Others are Satan”. Here you can add the third: those for whom Google and the Internet are synonymous, and the system itself has long gone beyond the framework of American life.

Explaining what Google is, it is difficult to circumvent the definition of "the most": the system has the highest number of additional options, the highest degree of security of the mail service, and document storage. In general, it has many other advantages over its counterparts in artificial intelligence. Against this background, the origin of the name from the mathematical "googol" (one to the hundredth degree) is quite symbolic.

Even linguists, incorrigible retrogrades, officially included the word "google" in the Oxford dictionary. But in American Butler they consider: the story of the emergence of Google is not just a set of facts introducing progressive solutions.

Inventing the future: the history of Google

The official record of Google Inc begins September 2, 1998, the day the company was registered in California. But in fact, it was preceded by 3 years of dense work of the founders and authors of the idea — Sergey Brin and Larry Page. They met in 1995 at Stanford University.

Bryn, a descendant of Soviet émigré Jews, had already received a Ph.D. degree, and an American from Michigan, Page, had just stepped onto a student’s path. Both of them understood the imperfection of the Internet search engines existing at that time and were obsessed with the idea, in the words of Larry, “download the entire Internet to your computer”.

First, the project was organized by the search program BackRub, on which novice inventors have worked since 1996 for two years. All developments have been used for the emergence of Google, which began to function since 1998. Brin and Page immediately proved to be brilliant managers, choosing a transparent method of goals and key results for corporate policy.

In 2015, Google Inc. was reorganized. The role of the parent company now performs holding Alphabet Inc. In February 2016, even Apple lost to market capitalization. Today, the names Bryn, Paige, Alphabet are three whales, on which Google has many faces.

Google features

The functions of the system, which was originally focused on the search for information, are being improved and are no less than the engine of progress. According to Wikipedia, for 77% of the audience choosing Google, they are not native English speakers.

Do not confuse the system with this — in its reserve there are more than 100 active languages, some dead, for example, Latin. She can easily communicate in artificial Esperanto and surprise Startrek fans: the fictional language of the inhabitants of the planet Clinton is also among Google’s linguistic technologies.

Not only Google translator and the most informative search is responsible for the popularity of the system. Users appreciate the key features of the following Google features:

• Google Account — a profile that will enable the use of any service program;
• GoogleGmail — mailbox, in the Runet is considered the safest;
• Chrome — the most convenient Internet browser;
• Googlelmages — search by image with a selection of pages where it was captured;
• GoogleSuggest — by entering a part of a phrase or word when searching, the user can choose the most correct wording of the request;
• GoogleMaps — system mapping service;
• Bookmarks — the function of saving links to the desired sites. Bookmarks are available later from any computer.
• GoogleDisk — cloud storage.
• YouTube is the most popular video hosting service.

These Google features are complemented by a huge number of additional options and hundreds of new applications. For example, American Butler, as well as a million other companies in the world, especially appreciates the Google My Business service, where you can create and maintain a company page.

5 interesting facts about Google

1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the mid-90s did not shine with html skills, so the main page came out somewhat primitive. Today it has become a chip and a business card of Google.
2. The first versions of the system processed 50 web pages per second, the last one — millions.
3. While everyone around the post seals, Google declared itself a "dog company." It is written in its Corporate Code of Conduct.
4. The company has rather fancy rituals. So the first week newcomers wear funny four-color caps with a propeller.
5. The corporation is closely promoting a wildlife conservation program in Africa. And not in word — deed, or rather, in dollars. Of the latest donations, 5 million US dollars went to unmanned devices to track poachers.

Behind the Google system is the future of digital infrastructure. And behind the American Butler agency — the present of your life in Miami!