What is Googl?

Google, the Chinese name is Google, the website is www.google.com, the stock code is GOOG, and the listing place is Nasdaq. Google is the largest and most influential search engine on the Internet, founded by Larry Page and sergey brin. Now, they are Google's product president and technology president respectively. The company's strategic plan is to use Google to organize information around the world and make it accessible and useful. Google handles more than 200 million queries through different services every day. Its corporate headquarters "Googleplex" is located in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, USA.

In addition to searching web pages, Google also provides services for searching pictures, newsgroups, news web pages and movies. In June 2005, Google has stored more than 8 billion web pages, 65438+30 million pictures and more than 1 100 million newsgroup messages-a total of about 65438+40 million. It also caches the contents of most web pages in the index.

Because of Google's reputation, "Google" as a verb means "looking for things on Google". In a broad sense, it also refers to "searching the Internet". Google officials do not encourage this habit of abusing the company name, because it may lead to Google becoming a common brand name.

history

Google search started with Larry Page and sergey brin's 1996. They are doctoral students at Stanford University. Their development theory says that the relationship between search engines and websites is based on mathematical analysis, which makes better results than basic technology. The plan was named "BackRub" because the system checked the links of foreign websites to estimate their importance. They think that others are highly related to this page, and the page with the most links must be the most relevant one. Larry Page and sergey brin decided to test their arguments and arrange funds for search engines. It's called Google! Is stored in the google.com domain. 1On September 7th, 998, they formally established the company of the same name-Google Company in their friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. Sergey brin didn't know how to write HTML code to design web pages, so at first Google's page was just the most basic interface.

In 2000, Google launched advertisements and sold some keywords to make advertisements more relevant to users. In addition, text ads is arranged in order, which reduces the loading time and keeps the page clean. In September, 20001year, Stanford University and inventor Lawrence Page obtained the Google ranking algorithm PageRank? Patents. In the early peak of 2004, Google was in charge of more than 80% of the search queries of all search engines such as Yahoo, AOL and CNN. And Yahoo! Giving up the support of Google search technology, Google did not offer to share its web search.

Google search has humorous features, such as making cartoon-like modifications to Google logo at more important moments (called Google Doodles), choosing fictional humorous language to show Google, such as Klingon (the language of Klingon in Star Trek) and Leet, and playing some jokes about the company on April Fool's Day (such as setting up a Google base on the moon).

Because Google's services such as Orkut, Gmail and Froogle will give search results based on what users have done before, some people think that Google will aim at providing personalized search. In fact, Google Labs already has an experimental personalized search.

Google name

The origin of a word

The name Google is a mathematical term, that is, 10 to the power of 10, which means 1 followed by 10 zeros. This term was coined by Milton Silota, nephew of American mathematician Edward Casner, and appeared in the book Mathematics and Imagination co-authored by Casner and James Newman. Google uses this word to reflect the company's mission: to organize endless information on the Internet.

Registered trademarks and domain names

"To google" is a verb, which means to search something with Google. This is because of the popularity of Google (in June 2005, it owned 52% of the market of all search engines, but it was actually higher than 80%). Some people interpret this term broadly as "searching on the Internet". Because doing so may dilute the significance of Google as a registered trademark, Google does not encourage this usage.

In order to avoid domain name kidnapping and some intentional spoofs, Google has purchased copyrights to protect some domain names with similar pronunciation, such as gogle.com and googel.com.

Chinese name

Google's global Chinese name is "Google", which was released by Google CEO eric schmidt in Beijing, China on April 12, 2006. The meaning of "Google" is interpreted as taking you as a song (here "ancient" is short for "ancient"), a song of sowing and expectation, and a song of harvest and joy.

On the other hand, Google was registered as "Google International Limited Liability Company" in Taiwan Province Province earlier in February 2005 at 65438+.

Before Google officially released Chinese names, there were some common names besides the original names, such as "ancient dog", "solitary dog" and "dog".

In addition, Google Beijing Branch uses "Goo Guo" as a Chinese translation for contract signing and online recruitment.

At about 1 in the early morning of April 17 (UTC+8), Beijing time, the word "Google" officially appeared on Google's simplified Chinese website. Soon after the Chinese name was released, many users criticized it. Subsequently, some China users launched an online signature campaign against Google.

search engine

~1998: 250,000 yuan

August 2000:10.6 million

65438+2002 10 month: 2.073 billion

February 2003: 3.083 billion

September 2004: 4.285 billion

165438+2004 10: 8.058 billion web pages, 880 million pictures, 845 million news groups and 4,500 news messages.

June 2005: 8.058 billion web pages, 65.438+065.438+87 million pictures, 65.438+0 billion news groups, 6,600 printed catalogues and 4,500 news messages.