Who among us does not know Google, who does not use Google search engines at least once a day, who does not have a Smart Phone with a Google product installed, or on which the company's operating system is installed.
In this article, we will delve deeper into this giant, which has become an integral part of our daily life, and we will sail together in the world of Google and learn about some secrets that many do not know. Let's start ...
The origins of Google
There is no doubt that Google is one of the most important inventions related to Internet technology, but one of the most important human inventions in the modern era. One Google product, the Search Engine, handles nearly 4000 searches per second, 3.5 billion searches per day, and 1.2 trillion searches annually. In fact, the Google search engine processes about 70% of the searches that take place on the Internet, and it is the first stop for all web users around the world.
The idea of Google came when the two students, "Larry Page" and "Sergey Brin", met at the time when they were studying at Stanford University in California, specifically they were preparing a doctoral thesis with a research project. In their research they assumed that the search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites should provide a better ranking of the search results than those provided by the methods followed at the time.
The techniques used at the time were to arrange results based on how often the searched term appeared on the page. Both Larry Page and Sergey Byrne launched a search engine called "BackRub", which was examining the backlinks on the site in order to evaluate the degree of importance of the site, and there was a small search engine named "Rankdex" trying to search for a similar technology.
Based on the conviction of "Big" and "Brian" .... The pages that include links pointing to other related pages are the most important pages and the most related to the search process, so both of them tested their hypothesis as part of their study, and from here the cornerstone of their search engine was laid. They applied their experience through the Stanford website, using the university's domain as google.stanford.edu.
On September 15, 1997 the domain name google.com was registered, as the official link to the Google search engine. On September 4, 1998, an official company was established and registered under the name Google, and it was based in a car garage in the home of a friend of the two founders in Menlo Park, California. The total initial funds raised to establish Google are $ 1.1 million.
This amount included a $ 100,000 bank check written by Andy Pettico Shim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, (which was later acquired by the database industry giant Oracle).
In March 1999, Google moved its headquarters to "Palo Alto", in the state of California in the United States, a city that witnessed the beginning of many companies, and launched a number of technologies that we use to this day, which appeared in the Silicon Valley.
(Silicon Valley is famous due to the presence of a large number of developers of chips, silicon chips, and integrated electronic circuits, and currently Silicon Valley includes all technical works, as the name of the region is synonymous with the term high technology, and it contributes to a third of the investment returns in the United States of America)
We go back to Google… After the company expanded very quickly, becoming larger than the two headquarters it owns, in 2003 it rented a group of buildings from Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, and since that time this place has become a permanent headquarters for Google, And after that it bought it in 2006 for $ 319 million, and its name became GooglePlex.
Google Plex headquarters
The name Google headquarters came by combining the words Google and Complex, and it became GooglePlex. Googleplex is one of the most comfortable workplaces in the world for its employees, Googleplex provides a unique work environment inside and outside the headquarters to help its employees be creative at work. Google provides its employees with swimming pools next to the headquarters, and it is supervised by a group of professional swimmers and rescuers to help any employee who is at risk of drowning.
Google also provides billiard tables that employees can use during their breaks, and a barber shop with a group of hairdressers hired by Google to serve their employees. There is also a gymnasium, and a massage center with a professional group of masseurs who provide a “massage” to the employees at any time to remove their fatigue.
There is also a volleyball court next to the headquarters to play volleyball during breaks, and Google allows its employees to bring their dogs during working hours.
Google provides a children's play area, and a place to take care of children for the children of Google employees in the event that they take them to work. Google also provides its employees with 3 healthy meals, and while they eat those meals, they can view the paintings and technical drawings that are the creativity of Google employees themselves.
Google uses a method to motivate its employees, whereby all company employees are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (equivalent to a day per week) working on projects that interest each employee. Google has reaped the benefits of this motivational method with the emergence of several services provided by Google to light from the creativity of its employees, and among these services: Gmail, Google News, and the service of placing ads on Google AdSense websites .
Based on all this, Google Plex is considered one of the most luxurious and comfortable work locations in the world, as it helps its employees to create permanent and increase loyalty and full affiliation with Google. Google generally has 54 thousand employees distributed in more than 40 countries around the world (now Google has headquarters in many countries around the world).
Philanthropy and the social role of Google
In 2004 Google created a for-profit charity (that uses the profits to help communities), and called it Google.org with an initial capital of $ 1 billion. Its primary goal is to spread awareness of climate change, global public health, and global poverty.
The first major projects of the Google Charitable Foundation were to develop an electric-powered car, with the ability to provide it with small quantities of fuel and the ability to be charged electrically. This car can cut 100 kilometers per liter of fuel in addition to the electric charge, which reduces the proportion of exhaust emissions. It is worth noting that "Larry Brilliant" is the founder and director of this institution.
Google had announced a project called 100 ^ 10, which accepts ideas and suggestions on how to help the community, and then allows Google search engine users to vote on the ideas they like, and the ideas that get the highest vote together get a $ 10 million prize.
Google's partnerships with other companies and institutions
Google has worked with many companies to improve production and services, and this falls under its social role. Among the partnerships announced by Google ... is its long-term research partnership with the space agency NASA, where Google participates in establishing a research center at the Emes Research Center of NASA.
The primary mission of this center is large-scale data management, large-scale distributed accounting, the dynamic convergence of nanoscale information, and the promotion of the space industry.
Google also formed a partnership with Sun Microsystems before it merged with Oracle. The goal of the partnership was to help exchange technologies for both of them, and within the terms of the partnership, Google appointed employees to help develop open source software .
Google has also partnered with auto giants Kia Motors KIA and Hyundai Motors, to integrate Google Maps into the vehicle specifications launched by the two companies.
The effect of Google offering its shares on the stock exchange
When Google first went public with its shares on the stock exchange, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page pledged to potential investors ... that the initial offering of shares per inch would not change Google's culture in general, and that they were thinking a lot about how to preserve the company's culture and the elements of fun within it. And its employment policies.
And Google had received accusations at that time from a group of old employees, according to which Google is making gender discrimination between employees on the basis of age. Meanwhile, the widespread New York Times has opened fire on Google. In several articles, she attacked the company’s policy, accusing it of losing its unique anti-evil philosophy and violating the principles of commercial companies that aim to profit only at the expense of the employee.
This prompted Google to appoint a person responsible for developing the company's culture and basic principles, and he also works as a director of human resources, and his primary mission is to develop and preserve the culture on which the company was built, and to devise ways to preserve the basic values on which the company was founded from the beginning ... which is to be an institution It has a horizontally stretched structure and collaborative work environment.
Alphabet Inc
The two partners, "Larry Page" and "Sergey Brin"… the founders of Google decided to move to a larger model for managing their expanded business by establishing the holding company Alphabet Inc, which I am looking for responsible for managing a number of other companies so that Google with its services will be one of them. Some may be surprised by this step, but some believe that it is an appropriate and good step, given the increase in the size of Google's business and its departure from the scope of its main specialties.
With the new organization of "Brin" and "Big" businesses, Google has become a branch of a giant company called Alphabet Inc. Alphabet is a multidisciplinary group of companies in technology and other fields.
The Alphabet Inc group includes companies such as Google, Google Ventures, Google Capital, Calico, Nest Labs and X Labs, and it is expected to include more companies in the future.
Google, as a company, will be responsible for developing its various services, including Gmail, Google search engine, YouTube, Google translation, the Android Android system for smartphones, as well as Google Maps and Google AdSense advertising services, with a different group. One of the continuously produced apps by Google.
On the basis of this change, each specialized company within Alphabet will have a special CEO, and at the top of the pyramid we will find “Sergey Brin” as Chairman of Alphabet Group, his partner “Larry Page” Director General, and “Eric Schmidt” as CEO. We know that Alphabet refers to the alphabet and it is a human creation.
A quick look at Google's history
1995 : The year "Larry Page" and "Sergey Brin" met at Stanford University.
1996 : "Larry Page" and "Sergey Brin" decided to collaborate on a project called Backrub to analyze website links, and this year saw the first release of Google through the university's website.
1997 : Google.com was officially born.
1998 : Google, Google, gets its first investment, which is $ 100,000 from Andy Pettico Shim, founder of Sun Microsystems. It also moved from the university room to a garage in Silicon Valley, and Google was listed as a company and institution on the fourth of September, but Her birthday is celebrated on the 27th of September.
1999 : Google moved to another office, a team of only eight employees, and the investment capital became $ 25 million.
2000 : Google.com comes out in 10 languages other than English. Google also entered into an agreement with Yahoo to make Google the default search engine for Yahoo.
2002: Google News officially launched with 4,000 news sources.
2003 : Blogger company Pyra Labs acquired by Google, and Google was voted the best word in 2002 by members of the American Dialect Association.
2004 : Gmail services are launched, Google is offered for subscription, and a share price of $ 85 is fixed.
2005 : Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Talk launched.
2006 : The popular video-sharing site YouTube is acquired, Google Apps and G Suite are launched, and Google is launched in China.
2007 : Acquisition of Double Click advertising company.
2008 : The Google Chrome web browser is launched, and a new partnership with Yahoo is announced.
2009 : Google ranked 5th in the ranking of the most powerful companies in the world.
2010 : Google enters the mobile phone market, launches the first phone called Nexus One, and launches the first version of the mobile operating system called Android.
2011 : Google launches Google + and Google Cloud Platform service, and Larry Page becomes CEO.
2012 : Google launched the Google Play Store, launched the cloud storage service Google Drive, and presented a new project called the Glass Project.
2013 : Google launches the Hangouts chat system, and also launches Chrome cast.
2014 : Google acquires Nest Corporation, a manufacturer of automatic Wi-Fi thermostats, smoke detection and safety systems.
2015 : Google announced its reorganization as a holding company called Alphabet Inc, and "Larry Page" assumed the position of CEO of Alphabet Inc, while "Sander Pichai" was announced as CEO of Google.
2016 : Google launched a for-profit educational platform called Udacity that gives courses, and Google overtakes Apple as the most valuable company in the world with a total market value of 568 billion US dollars.
In the end, I hope this topic has given you a close idea of Google. If you have information or an idea about Google that is not mentioned here, you can share it via the comments below.
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