- Introduction
- Where is the Headquarter of Google?
- Who is the Founder of Google?
- When was Google establish?
- Development of Google?
- What are the products of Google and there uses?
- Why Google is important in Daily Life?
Introduction:
Imagine a company that touches you more than a dozen times in a single day.
When you wake up and look at your phone when you book that taxi to get to work or when you try to share that file with a colleague and when you watch that video in your break. A company that not only has the capability of knowing you more than yourself but being able to analyze millions of data points to predict how you may feel tomorrow and what you may buy next week.
That is Google. An American multinational company that focuses on internet-related services and products.
Where is the Headquarter of Google?
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, the U.S., it is currently led by Sundar Pichai who is the CEO.
GOOGLE stands for Global Organization of Oriented Group Language of Earth
Who was the Founder of Google?
In an era where conventional search engines ranked results by counting the number of times a search term appeared on a page, the founders of Google, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin - Ph.D. students at Stanford University in 1996, theorized that the relevance of the pages and its importance is more critical and can be calculated by the number of backlinks to the original website.
When was Google establish?
In 1996, for a research project, Larry Page was focussed on finding out which pages linked to a particular page and the nature and number of such backlinks. He shared his concept with Scott Hassan who originally started to develop the algorithm for the search engine. He was later joined by Alan Steremberg and they created BackRub. It primarily worked as a web crawler and gathered information.
To convert the backlink data is collected for a webpage, into a measure of importance, Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed an algorithm called PageRank. By combining these two, and running them over and over, Page and Brin realized that a web search engine based on this technique produced better results than the one that existed at that time, and the foundations for Google search were laid.
During September of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google (Global Organization of Oriented Group Language of Earth) while they were still Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California. It was named after the mathematical term googol (one followed by 100 zeroes), inspired by the vast number of links between pages and how their search engine would become a more accurate tool to search the web that continued to grow each day.
Development of Google
Since then, Google has seen massive growth through the creation of tools, solutions, technology, acquisitions, partnerships, and hardware. What started as an enhanced search engine company that redefined how people searched on the internet for relevant information was deemed to change the internet and businesses forever.
For example, it launched:- Google News in 2002,
- Gmail in 2004,
- Google Maps in 2005,
- Google Chrome in 2008,
- bought Android Inc., in 2005 and
- Launched the Android mobile operating system (OS) in 2007 that became the turning point for the mobile phone industry.
It even became the search engine for Yahoo in 2000 which was a premier web search engine before Google. In the summer of 2002, Yahoo tried to acquire Google for $3 billion. Google turned the offer down as it felt that it was worth at least $5 billion.
Between 2010 and 2011 alone, it acquired or was in the process of acquiring or merging over 50 smaller companies and technologies with its products. It’s a revolutionary search engine and business model attracted investors and its growth knew no bounds.
Driven by its core ad revenue, in January of 2020, Alphabet Inc. Google’s parent company, became the third technology company to be worth over $ 1 trillion exceeded only by Apple and Microsoft.
What are the Products of Google and there Uses?
In today’s world, it is almost impossible to be untouched by Google’s products or services unless you are living under a rock. Google’s products and services have in effect, changed the way people work, live, connect, and play. They have changed the way businesses run, the way we live, work, shop, and move.
Take for example, when you want to book a cab on Uber or Ola, or when you want to order that quick snack on Swiggy or Zomato, or when you shop on Amazon or Flipkart, or even when you send that email or find the closest Italian restaurant. You are able to do all these and many more because of a simple Google product called Google Maps.
With over 100 products, Google serves, general people, businesses, and developers. Take a look at some of them.
For General
| Android OS | Chrome | Connected Home | Chromebook |
| Gmail | Earth | Forms | Google Chat |
| Hangouts | Calendar | Contacts | Docs |
| Drive | Meet | Maps | Photos |
| Sheets | Sites | Translate | YouTube |
For Business
| Adsense | Analytics | Android | Assistant |
| Blogger | Ads | Chrome | Cloud |
| Data studio | Enterprise Search | Merchant Centre | My Business |
| Marketing | Maps | Manufacturing Centre | Optimize |
| Sheets | Sites | Translate | YouTube |
For Developers
| App Testing | Cloud Computing | Devices | Engagement |
| Game Services | Maps + Location | Monetization | Monitoring |
| Payments | Storage + Sync | Growth | Messaging |
Why Google is Important in Daily Life?
Google is important in more than one way today.- While on one hand, it enables people and businesses to go ahead and use the information on the internet and where our lives almost depend on it.
- on the other hand, it is one of the companies that has immense access to our personal data and what and how it chooses to use this information is critical.
The technology, products, and services offered by Google have, in fact, enabled many new businesses and jobs to be created. For example, a considerable number of startups use Google (Global Organization of Oriented Group Language of Earth) work and developer tools. Companies that need to use location-based services such as taxi aggregators, logistics, and food delivery app would not exist without Google Maps. Android-based phones would be absent. Our emails would probably still have a few MBs of limit rather than the GB limit that Gmail initiated. It has spurred immense freedom for creators to develop using cloud technology and given rise to many other products because of its services, almost becoming a boon.
Today, we are connected to the internet in more than one way. We depend on it for our lives to go on and not only for very basic aspects such as work, transport, entertainment, and food but social needs such as connectivity, sharing, and social acknowledgment. Without realizing, we have enabled companies like, Google to grow immensely. During this process, we have also agreed to share a lot of our personal information and data with Google. With the advent of predictive analytics, big data, and AI, this has enabled it to analyze this data and process this to even predict our behavior.
How Google manages and uses the immense personal information of not only its customers but also its customers is fast becoming a landmark trendsetter for other companies and businesses to follow.
It has also prompted countries, particularly in the EU, to enhance privacy laws and create ‘Forget me’ options to protect information considered personal.
We are thus left with a boon/bane system where we depend on Google to provide us with immense information and services to enable our lives while we silently agree to give up some of our privacy when it comes to information.
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