Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two doctoral students at Stanford University, who had developed a search engine algorithm called PageRank that ranked web pages by how many other pages linked to them. The company was incorporated in September 1998 and began in a garage in Menlo Park, California. The name is a play on googol, the number one followed by a hundred zeros. Google's search results were better than those of its rivals, and its advertising system generated huge revenue. It went public in 2004, and added services such as Gmail, Maps, Chrome, Android and YouTube. In 2015 it was reorganised under a holding company called Alphabet.
Before and after
- from 2 August 1998 to 30 June 2003Second Congo War
- from 4 August 1998 to 30 August 1998Operation Kitona
- from 17 August 1998 to 15 November 19981998 Russian financial crisis
- 19 August 1998Release of Rotten Tomatoes
- 4 September 1998Founding of Google
- 6 September 1998Death of Akira Kurosawa
- 1 October 1998Founding of Europol
- from 7 October 1998 to 21 May 2006Premiere of Charmed
- 8 October 1998Construction of Oslo Airport
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- 22 March 1945Founding of Arab League
- 1950Origins of Formula One
- 8 August 1967Founding of ASEAN
- 10 December 1987Rise of Hamas
- 1994Rise of Taliban
- 11 September 2001September 11 attacks
The era
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