google become google because they give you pleasure of using search engine. they understand the human needs with their search results.. so, word of mouth is a powerful thing. i switch to google because i believe they think of users/customers first. yahoo.com and msn.com will have 100+ links, when you visit google, you see one search box. that's being the same for 10 years.. because they care about people who come visit their website. but they generate money faster than anyone in IT world in past 10 years.. that's the essence of their success.
They had a unique algorithm and a lot of people liked it. They also got a lot of investors to invest in them
Luck had nothing to do with it. There have been many search engines before google and many since. Google has become what it is today by giving us, the user exactly what we want, keeping everything they do free and the power of simplicity. The google search engine has always been the best, google is innovative and google will be the power house they are today for a very long time.
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford.[1] In search for a dissertation theme, Page considered—among other things—exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.[2] His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to pick this idea (which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got"[3]) and Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).[2] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student and close friend, whom he had first met in the summer of 1995 in a group of potential new students which Brin had volunteered to show around the campus.[2] Page's web crawler began exploring the web in March 1996, setting out from Page's own Stanford home page as its only starting point.[2] To convert the backlink data that it gathered into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm.[2] Analyzing BackRub's output—which, for a given URL, consisted of a list of backlinks ranked by importance—it occurred to them that a search engine based on PageRank would produce better results than existing techniques (existing search engines at the time essentially ranked results according to how many times the search term appeared on a page).[2][4] A small search engine called RankDex was already exploring a similar strategy.[5] Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"[6][7] which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb, "google," was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning, "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."[8][9] By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages.[10] The home page was still marked "BETA", but an article in Salon.com already argued that Google's search results were better than those of competitors like Hotbot or Excite.com, and praised it for being more technologically innovative than the overloaded portal sites (like Yahoo!, Excite.com, Lycos, Netscape's Netcenter, AOL.com, Go.com and MSN.com) which at that time, during the growing dot-com bubble, were seen as "the future of the Web", especially by stock market investors.[10] In March 1999, the company moved into offices at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups.[11] After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1999.[12] The company has remained at this location ever since, and the complex has since become known as the Googleplex (a play on the word googolplex, a 1 followed by a googol of zeros). In 2006, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million.[13] The Google search engine attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design.[14] In 2000, Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords.[1] The ads were text-based to maintain an uncluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed.[1] Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and click-throughs, with bidding starting at $.05 per click.[1] This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto.com (later renamed Overture Services, before being acquired by Yahoo! and rebranded as Yahoo! Search Marketing).[15][16][17] While many of its dot-com rivals failed in the new Internet marketplace, Google quietly rose in stature while generating revenue.[1] Google's declared code of conduct is "Don't be evil", a phrase which they went so far as to include in their prospectus (aka "red herring" or "S-1") for their IPO, noting, "We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served — as shareholders and in all other ways — by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains." The Google site often includes humorous features such as cartoon modifications of the Google logo to recognize special occasions and anniversaries.[18] Known as "Google Doodles", most have been drawn by Google's international webmaster, Dennis Hwang.[19] Not only may decorative drawings be attached to the logo, but the font design may also mimic a fictional or humorous language such as Star Trek Klingon and Leet.[20] The logo is also notorious among web users for April Fool's Day tie-ins and jokes about the company.
Google's business model of internet-search-driven advertising has become so dominant that competitors Microsoft and Yahoo can hardly compete.
You can Download a Documentary of Discovery Channel called "Download: The True Story Of Internet" download it's episode "Search Engine" it is very interesting to see how Venture Capitalist at silicon valley in USA n Google(at it's invention it was hosted on servers of Stanford University) came forward n google rocked the world with it's search engine.At that time "Lycos" got a offer to buy google for 10 million dollar but thy refused.But lycos refused saying that it is a normal search engine which we have right now everywhere.That was a biggest mistake that "Lycos" did if thy would have purchased it,I think you all guys might be searching on 'lycos.com" which is right now not so much popular. So how was the story,If you liked it then take some time reading my articles at Smart Bloggerz
Google's success is due to the quality of its product and the profitability of its business model. The quality of its product is 90% skill and 10% luck. The profitability of its business model, in my opinion, is 10% skill and 90% luck. Search page views have an average CPM of $40 (as per Yahoo's filings), while page views on the rest of the internet go for less that $1 CPM. Most go for a lot less. The only other large category of valuable page views is Classified, which go for around $50 CPM (again according to Yahoo's filings). Please note that Classified page views, which actually generate a higher CPM than Search page views, have no innovative marketing platforms like Adsense or Adwords attached to them. I take this as a proof that Google's success in monetizing search has less to do with their marketing efforts and more to do with the close connection between a search and an e-commerce transaction.
A list of element makes google , including Team, study, algorithm, venture capital, google fans and google user.
I-G4L is right, they were supposed to be called Googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), but it was mistakenly typed in as google. The rest is history.
This video might give you an idea of how it happened: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294
How did Google become Google? By not being Yahoo! Innovation, timing, dillagence, immagination, no limitaions, and resources.
Start a search engine should have riched sponser or should be able to hold a company without profits at least one year. Heard google also did same before they introducing adsense and adwords now google became as the biggest player in internet.. I think it is good to create a socail network site than creating a SE because it is hard to competting with google otherwise yhooo and microsoft should already defeat gggl
How did Google become Google. This is a very interesting question. I would say they had a very innovative and theoretically approach and understanding of the http-internet. The 2 founders considered links in a different way and relied on them as quality markers. Around that they developed their algorithm. But there is more that made Google successful: They also had the knowledge to develeop a new technical approach to deliever search results faster than others, with less downtime and at lower costs. They developed their own file format and databases and they had a vision of dropping hardware prices, so they decided to buy cheap PCs and clustered them instead of buying expensive high end servers. That way they didnt need too much venture capital for expansion. Anther important thing probably was their University network where they were able to find specialists for every single problem that they came over. (Probably at no cost) There is a really interesting paper: http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf which shows of how many factors these guys have been thinking and I think this was the key to success. It was a totally new approach of how a search engine works. But there is even more that led to Google success: It is the way this company is run. As far as I know at an early age people working for this company have been paid with shares and options. The effect was, that everyone built up a strong bond with that company and every single one worked longer and harder to make it a success. Their empoyees developed new and innovative ideas how to attract users and how to cash the valuable datas. This lead to adsense, which was a milestone. That brought in the money. There have been loads of factors which contributed to the success of this company. Of course there was also luck and the right timing that made them what they are today.