The Success Story of Google

The internet is one (if not) the biggest fastest forms of communication we use in this world. It's used to connect people to one another from any point on the earth. The internet also consist of a large number of search engine. Each search engine can look up and find about anything you are looking for. One of the biggest search engines today is Google. A search engine was built in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California. This search engine was named “BackRub,” and it was the beginning of a new era. The name of this website was changed afterward to what we know now as "Google".First of all, where does the word “Google” come from? The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol”, the mathematical equivalent of the number one followed by a hundred zeros. Google used that term because the internet seems to have infinite amount of information, and there doesn't seem to be a name more suitable. This reflects on the founders' original mission to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful' (Google.com, 2010). The core competency of their business, the Google search engine has become so successful that it attracted a loyal following among a growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design and useful results.