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Google's identity as a company has always been worth a sensible chuckle before being named after a misspelling of a really large number it was a research project called backrub and although it wasn't the first search engine by any means it worked in a fundamentally different way than most of the other options out there including backrubs entire lack of a friendly Butler that would fetch search results for you most early search engines gave you results based on how many times words you searched in a string appeared on a page so if you typed Linus instead of articles about Linus Torvalds Linus from peanuts or Linus tech tips you might instead see some random fanfic with a main character named Linus along with some other guy named Luke or something yeah anyways backrub rank two search results based on how many times other pages linked to them using a system called PageRank the idea was that a page that had lots of other pages linking to it was more important and more likely to be what people were searching for and although Google's current algorithm has grown to be much more comprehensive PageRank back then was such an innovation that it gave Google a massive edge over its competitors that spurred its rapid growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s forcing it to quickly move from its original homes of Stanford University servers and kaliesha incoming a garage in a Silicon Valley house Google's popularity was also boosted by its clean simple layout remember how cluttered and add filled other web portals of the time were now don't get me wrong Google did sell ads but they're unobtrusive nough stood a great deal to keep them popular and they made lots of money by targeting the ads based on what users were actually searching something that took its competitors longer to catch up on back in 2002 Google started making its first real forays into products besides standard web search such as Google shopping and Google Books then a couple years later than now near ubiquitous Gmail showed up on April freakin Fool's Day of 2004 which led many people to believe that it was a joke at first I mean a gig of web storage for free back then that was crazy and since it was invite only to start accounts for highly coveted leading it to become hugely popular when it released to everyone so maybe it's no huge coincidence that Google went public later that year making some longtime Googlers very wealthy shortly after Google's initial public offering they rolled out a lot of services that are now Google staples Maps earth transit street view calendar and the ever-present gchat all hit the scene between 2005 and 2007 with Google acquiring YouTube in 2006 and introducing there faster than a potato gun Google Chrome in 2008 which is the world's most used browser today by a large margin even though it's become a little more bloated since then Google's freely available Android OS launched in 2008 which now has chrome built in which is probably contributed largely to that previous statistic made Google a major player in the mobile market leading to the more recent dive into the world of hardware and I mean other than that like Search Appliance thing for businesses that they rolled out back in 2001 I'm talking about the 2009 release of the Chromebook a low cost line of laptops built around the Chrome browser which you can learn more about up here that was followed by Nexus phones and tablets the next year 2009 and 2010 also saw Google's search algorithm revamped to focus on adding real time and recent content meaning that Google could now be used not only as a repository of existing information but as a true source of current news very timely considering the explosive growth of devices with Google search functionality baked in allowing people to punch in a wider variety of queries even current weather and sports scores and still get relevant results so with their own software and hardware now nearly everywhere at this point including their new pixel smartphones which you can learn more about up here Google is even dabbling in infrastructure projects like Google Fiber an internet service that's been rolled out in 7 America Metro areas since 2013 and with other ongoing Google projects like driverless cars and balloons that can provide Internet access to underserved areas Google's reach has amazed some but also concerned others who worry they'll become the real world by and large and considering their absolute dominance of the search and data mining business their tax avoidance strategies that have been described as ethically questionable and their abandonment of the don't be evil as a corporate slogan who knows all I know is that I would definitely stick to DuckDuckGo if you want to see how many other people think Larry Page kind of looks like a Bond villain for non members of Dollar Shave Club if you join today you will get your first month of razors for free and if you continue on after that they will continue to deliver razors 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