The best search engine celebrates its 22 years

Google appeared on the digital scenario by mid-1998 with the idea of becoming the best search engine

On September 27, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched one of the search engines that today has become the most established in the world of the Web: Google. The tool that was developed in mid-1996, with the intention of becoming the best search engine and currently has exceeded those expectations.

What began as a university project of the career in computer science at Stanford University and which would be called BackRub, would become in 1998 the founding of an Internet company called Google Inc. Its name was Inspired by the mathematical term “Gúgol” that refers to the number 10 raised to the power of 100.

In February 2003 Google acquired the software company Pyra Labs and with it the blogging service Blogger. Later, the company launched Google Local and later integrated with Google Maps and Google My Business.

With the intention of fully entering the competition, Google launched in April 2004 an email with 1Gb of storage, better known as Gmail, with a minimalist interface along with a Google Talk Chat system and thus this new electronic mailbox became the rival of Yahoo and Hotmail.

Google has showed an unstoppable race with products such as Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google News, Google Discover, Google Maps, Google Street View, Google Earth, cloud solutions services, Artificial Intelligence and natural language applied to content reading

K. Villarroel

Source: posicionamiento-web-seo

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