Happy 9th Birthday to Google

September 27, 2007

Those of you who have used Google today (which will be many of us!) may have noticed the temporary change to the homepage logo which now shows a big image of the number 9 as a pinata. If you haven’t figured by now, it’s because today is Google’s Birthday! It was 9 years ago today two students from Stanford University decided to release their revolutionary new search engine to the masses.

On September 27th, 1998 the internet and how we use it changed forever. This change was because students Larry Page and Sergei Brin felt search engines at the beginning of 1996 just weren’t fulfilling users’ requests. So after almost two years of research and development they launched their new search engine Google.com to the masses. The way their revolutionary search engine differed from others was how they scored websites through the quality and quantity of links going to them. This proved highly successful and many others quickly followed suit.

Since then Google have gone from strength to strength, expanding their company into a large corporate empire, while still sticking to their slogan of “Don’t Be Evil”. They have developed countless web applications such as Google Analytics and Google Mail, expanded their search facilities to include the likes of Google Image Search and Google Maps, as well as many other ventures, overall establishing them as probably the most powerful company online. A quick check of Google’s market value will back up this claim.

So what’s next for Google?

Perhaps the real question should be ‘When will Google completely take over the world?’ (at least that’s what some people believe!). Their growth has been phenomenal over the last few years, with them expanding into pretty much every online industry. Rumours are abound that they will soon be dipping their toes into other areas, from releasing a Google Phone to developing their own operating system. One thing is for sure - Google won’t be going away any time soon!

So, from all the staff at Just Search, Happy Birthday Google!

Rik
SEO Programmer