From a Californian garage to the top of the most capitalized companies in the world. All of this changing the lives of billions of people forever. This is the parable of Google, which he does today 21 years.
Larry Page e Sergey Brin today they are two mythical figures in the history of technology, but they were simple students of the University of Stanford when they conceived the idea of a search engine based on the mathematical analysis of the relationships between websites rather than on empirical techniques. The intuition is based on the Theory of Networks, ie on the belief that the pages cited by a greater number of links were the most important and deserving.
In reality, the foundation of Google dates back to September 4, 1998, but since 2005 the anniversary of its birth has been celebrated on September 27, in memory of when (again in 1998) the first record of indexed pages was recorded.
On May 7, 2010 comes what the company itself considers update most important in its history, as it introduces a radical renewal of graphics as well as a series of improvements and new functions.
On November 9 of the same year, Google released the new feature Instant Previews, which allows you to preview each result directly from the search page (Serp).
Another crucial date in the history of Big G is October 2012st XNUMX, the day of overtaking Microsoft in the ranking of companies with the highest market capitalization. At the time, Google was worth US$249,19 billion, compared to Microsoft's US$247,44 billion. Values far from current ones, who see Mountain View third in the standings behind Apple (second) and Microsoft, back to the top.
The corporate revolution arrives on October 2nd 2015, when Larry Page announces the establishment of the holding company Alphabet Inc., of which Google is the parent company. Since then, "Alphabet" also becomes the name used by Google on the New York Stock Exchange. Google shares are converted at par into Alphabet shares but the new holding company keeps the same previous acronyms (GOOGL and GOOG) to highlight continuity.
