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Larry Page.
They were computer science students at Stanford University and

became friends while attending a school event.
In 1996, they developed their first search engine called “BackRub”. This attempt was not very successful.

came to life.

They wanted the name of their new search

engine to represent an infinity of information.

The word “Google” is made up from the mathematical term “googol”, which is used for the number represented by the numerical 1 followed by 100 zeros.

the “Top 100 Web Sites” by PC Magazine.

Google entered the

NASDAQ stock market on Aug. 19, 2004.

The price of their stock on the very first day was $85 dollars.

one year after entering the stock market, the price of

Google stock was $280.oo dollars.

By October of 2007, it has reached $707.00 dollars.

Google’s average stock price presently, sells at about $480.00.

are known as Googlers.
The company’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA

is the Googleplex.
Google’s chef has also worked for the rock band The Grateful Dead and George Clinton.
In 2002, American Dialect Society members voted “Google” “the most useful” Word of the Year.
The verb “google”, was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006.

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