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Google's identity as a company has always been worth a sensible chuckle

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before being named after a misspelling of a really large number it was a

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research project called backrub and although it wasn't the first search

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engine by any means it worked in a fundamentally different way than most of

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the other options out there including backrubs entire lack of a friendly

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Butler that would fetch search results for you most early search engines gave

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you results based on how many times words you searched in a string appear on

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a page so if you typed lonus instead of articles about Linus tals Linus from

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peanuts or Linus Tech tips you might instead see some random fanfic with a

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main character named lonus along with some other guy named Luke or something H

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anyways backrub ranked search results based on how many times other Pages

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linked to them using a system called page rank the idea was that a page that

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had lots of other Pages linking to it was more important and more likely to be

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what people were searching for and although Google's current algorithm has

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grown to be much more comprehensive page

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rank back then was such an innovation that it gave Google a massive Edge over

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its competitors that spurred its rapid growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s

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forcing it to quickly move from its original homes of Stanford University

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servers and cliche incoming a garage in

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a Silicon Valley House Google's popularity was also boosted by its clean

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simple layout remember how cluttered and AD filled other web portals of the time

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were now don't get me wrong Google did sell ads but their unobtrusiveness did a

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great deal to keep them popular and they made lots of money by targeting the ads

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based on what users were actually searching something that took its

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competitors longer to catch up on back in 2002 Google started making its first

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real foras into products besides standard web search such as Google

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shopping and Google Books then a couple years later the now near ubiquitous

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Gmail showed up on April freaking Fool's

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Day of 2004 which led many people to believe that it was a joke at first I

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mean a gig of web storage for free back then that was crazy and since it was

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invite only to start accounts were highly coveted leading it to become

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hugely popular when it released to everyone so maybe it's no huge

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coincidence that Google went public later that year making some long

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googlers very wealthy shortly after Google's initial public offering they

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rolled out a lot of services that are now Google Staples Maps Earth Transit

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street view calendar and the everpresent g chat all hit the scene between 2005

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and 2007 with Google acquiring YouTube

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in 2006 and introducing their faster than a potato gun Google Chrome in 2008

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which is the world's most used browser today by a large margin even though it's

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become a a little more bloated since then Google's freely available Android

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OS launched in 2008 which now has Chrome built-in which has probably contributed

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largely to that previous statistic made Google a major player in the mobile

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market leading to the more recent dive

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into the world of hardware and I mean other than that like search Appliance

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thing for businesses that they rolled out back in 2001 I'm talking about the

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2009 release of the Chromebook a lowcost

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line of laptops built around the Chrome browser which you can learn more about

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up here that was followed by Nexus phones and tablets the next year 2009

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and 2010 also saw Google's search algorithm revamped to focus on adding

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real time and recent content meaning that Google could now be used not only

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as a repository of existing information but as a true source of current news

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very timely considering the explosive growth of devices with Google search

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functionality baked in allowing people to punch in a wider variety of queries

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even current weather and sports scores and still get relevant

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results so with their own software and Hardware now nearly everywhere at this

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point including their new pixel smartphones which you can learn more about up here Google is even dabbling in

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infrastructure projects like Google Fiber an internet service that's been

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rolled out in seven American Metro areas since 2013

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and with other ongoing Google projects like driverless cars and balloons that

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can provide internet access to underserved areas Google's reach has

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amazed some but also concerned others

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who worry they'll become the real world by and large and considering their

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absolute dominance of the search and data mining business their tax avoidance

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strategies that have been described as ethically questionable and their

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abandonment of the don't be evil as a corporate slogan who knows all I know is

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that I would definitely stick to duck ducko if you want to see how many other

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people think Larry pagee kind of looks like a bond villain for non-members of

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