Google Case Study

Google started in March 1996. It was a research project called BackRub that Larry Page and Sergey Brin started, they were students of the University Stanford. The research was based on a theme of dissertation. Larry Page was considering exploring all the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web understanding its link structure as a huge graph. His supervisor Terry Winograd told Larry to pick this idea, which Larry Later on said he was going to call it "The best advice I ever got", and Larry focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, based on the consideration that the number and nature of such backlinks was valuable information for an analysis of that page with all the work of the citations in academic publishing in mind.

In April, 1998 Larry Page makes a monthly “Google friends Newsletter” to inform people about company news and Larry also put it on Google+. In August, 1998 a co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to a company that didn’t even existed that company was called Google Inc. At September in 1998 Google sets up there first workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage on Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park, Calif. In that same month Larry and Sergey hired their first employee, Craig Silverstein who was a grad student at Stanford who worked at Google more than 10 years before joining the education startup of Khan Academy. In December “PC magazines” announced that the people was going crazy with the Google search engine that was on the Top 100 Websites for 1998. In 1999 Google moved to another working space at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees. That same year (1999) Omid Kordestani joins to do the sales and he was the employee number 11. 10 years l...

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...gazines about popular mechanics and because of that he was inspired on creating things that makes an impact on the world or creations that could help people on their daily life, about the magazines he read he had a interest on how do that things works and he was really curious on that kind of things. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were the founders of Google. People believe that Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google but actually Larry Page is the executive director. Larry Page was who had the idea of making a company with creativity and fun but the thing he most wanted to focus on was to invent things that had to do with technology, to help people find information easily and his goal was that, to help people with their projects on their research and to have a new resource to search on easily and to invent a lot of helpful things and that has to be with technology.