We explain what Google is and when this famous company was founded. Also, how the Google search engine works and what Google+ is.
What is Google?
Google LLC, commonly referred to as Google, is a subsidiary company of the American multinational Alphabet Inc specialized in electronic, computer and Internet-related products and services.
Its main product, which bears the same name as the company, is the most popular search engine that exists whose function is to provide users with access to lists of web pages and references of different types, as a way to facilitate their journey through the vast world of the Internet.
In addition to the aforementioned search engine, Google LLC also offers a series of online applications ranging from email (Gmail), video playback (YouTube) and searching for postal addresses on a world map (Google Earth and Google Maps), even your own Internet browser (google chrome) and a social network (Google+), among many others.
Nevertheless, The Google search engine is the most visited page in the world Internet ranking which translates into responding to more than 1 billion search requests every day and requires a business presence in almost the entire planet.
Google has often been criticized due to intellectual property violations and to its collaboration with government global citizen surveillance programs (as revealed in 2013-2015) by the United States and its allied countries.
At the same time, the company has been accused of collaborating with the censorship of content in countries with totalitarian or dictatorial regimes, in order to gain commercial space in their populations.
When was Google founded?
The founders of Google are Larry Page and Sergey Brin who in 1996 were studying postgraduate studies at Stanford University, where they created their first version of the famous search engine, whose initial name was BackRub.
The following year they decided to rename it Google, playing with the mathematical term “googol” (equivalent to 10100), given the enormous amount of network information that their program had to deal with.
On September 4, 1998, the company Google Inc. was founded and on September 27 of that year, its services as an online search engine were offered to the network, in a market until then dominated by AltaVista (created in 1995).
The entrepreneurs had a closet full of servers (around 80 processors) and two HP brand routers. Their success was such that in 2000 they were already the vanguard of the area and launched their online advertising system (Google AdWords) and their search bar or Google Bar.
Since then the company would only grow and diversify.
How does Google work?
From entering the term in the search box until the results are obtained, a process that normally does not take more than a couple of seconds, the following processes take place in the Google search engine:
- Crawling and indexing The first stage of the search consists of reviewing the enormous number of web pages that exist (approximately 30 billion), contrasting the presence of the keyword provided by the user with their indexes.
- Algorithms and formulas. Once the results are selected, they allow the results to be ordered and ranked based on the terms provided by the user. This algorithm is capable of suggesting searches, offering parallel results and even correcting the user if they suspect that there was an error in writing the keyword.
- Elimination of SPAM Since many results will belong to unsafe, illegal or irrelevant sites, Google applies specialized filters that allow you to get rid of inconvenient results and focus your search on the most likely information.
What is Google+?
Google+, Google plus or G+ is the social network offered by Google Inc., whose appearance took place in 2011, at the height of the effervescence of social networks. This is the third social network with the most users in the world not so much because it is popular, which it is not so popular, but because of its interaction with Google User Accounts and especially with the YouTube video page.
Google+ aspires to integrate various services into the same social network: Circles of friends and acquaintances, virtual chats with them in real time (Hangouts), Interests and other forms of community. It is assumed that it is the way to compete with Facebook the most widely used social network in the world.
