Google Turns a Disruptive 10
Friday, September 26, 2008Sometime in September, Google turned 10. The exact date would have been September 4 however Google choose not to commemorate that date and since Google is the unofficial arbiter of all that is true online, their official birthday falls on whatever the heck day they want it to fall on. Me, I figure with the month of September rapidly receding, today is as good a day as any to commemorate.
Eleven years ago (Sept. 15, 1997), two Stanford university students registered the domain name Google.com/. Those students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had devised a tool that sorted web documents based on the number of links pointing to one document from a variety of others. They called it Backrub.
Encouraged by the founders of Yahoo!, Stanford alumni Jerry Yang and David Filo, Page and Brin started showing their search engine around Silicon Valley. In August 1998, they received their first investment from Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, who wrote a cheque for $100,000 to a company that didn’t even exist, Google Inc. Two weeks later, on September 4, 1998, Page and Brin incorporated their new business under the name Google, opened a bank account and deposited their first six-figures. Ten years later Google is arguably the most important online application.
(Google Ten Year Timeline)
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