Its Google's birthday!
Although a lot of days have been set aside by Google over the years this date remains kind of special. On 27th September 1997, Google started indexing the pages on its search engine. However, the company got officially on board on September 4, 1998. Google today celebrates its 23rd Birthday
Picture courtesy: DNA India (Sundar Pichai)
Over the years, Google has grown from just a search engine to a million times more in value. It has now expanded to Gmail, Android, Play Store, Google Assistant YouTube, Google Meet, Google Maps, and much more. Not just software it is now spreading its wings in hardware & electronic devices too. From Google lens and Google cars to Google camcorder and what not…name it and Google owns it. The per-day value of the company could be estimated at around $500 billion. With a lot of services like Google Analytics, Trend, AdWords, Ad Campaigns it earns a major revenue.
Picture courtesy: the Guardian (Larry Page and Sergey Brin)
The current CEO of Google, Mr. Sundar Pichai hails from India. He is a software engineer from India’s IIT Kharagpur. Google was first coded and started on the ground level by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. The data record to January 1996. Initially, when it was set up, Google wasn’t the only and the biggest page on the internet. But slowly it outnumbered its competitors like Yahoo, Bing, etc. Today one can search anything on Google by the input of numbers, text, voice, or even images.