Google was established in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page, a PhD student of Stanford. In the beginning this project was named as Back Rub considering the number and nature of back links that provided the valuable information about a particular web page.

      The domain google.com was registered on 15th of September, 1997. The name Google was born from the word Googol which refers to an infinite number like the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name Google signifies and symbolizes that the web site enables the users to view infinite number of information. There are lots funnier and silly stories about the origin of the title Google. If you browse the net you will come across many such interesting reasons on the origin of this title. The term Google is added as a verb in the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary in the year 2006. The word shows a meaning “to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the net”. Such is the fame and reputation of Google around the world. The Google search engine has attracted a loyal following among the growing number of internet users.

Achievements of Google.Inc:

      Google provides the service to the internet users in various fields such as internet search, email, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, video sharing etc. Its head quarters are located in California. Google’s main mission is to organize the information from around the world and make it accessible and useful to everyone of the internet users. Google has created services and tool for the general public and the business people, including web applications, advertising network and solution for business problems.

      Google indexes billions of web pages to enhance the users for the information they desire through the use of key words and operators. Google also has developed several desk top applications like Google desktop, Picasa, Google earth etc. Google earth is an interactive mapping program powered by the satellite and aerial imagery that covers the vast majority of the planet. Google translate can translate 35 different languages to each other forming 1190 language pairs. Google chrome, an open source web browser was released on 2nd of September, 2008.

      Google’s engineers are highly motivated regarding the projects of their own interests. They are encouraged to spend sometime working on that interest every day. This procedure has led to the birth of Gmail, Google news, Orkut etc which have intense number of followers around the world.