History of a great success

Science project by Sergei Brin and Larry Page, 1996, Stanford University, California

Googol: 10100

BackRub and PageRank

August 1998: 100 000$ for a company that does not exist

April 29, 2004: IPO for $2,718,281,828 (e)Oxford English Dictionary, 2006:

google, v.

Over 1,000,000 servers around the world1 billion requests per day24 PB (24,000 TB; 24,000,000 GB) processed

data per day2006: $10.6 billion revenue2010: $29.3 billion ~*~

Official Google corporate policy