Google Search began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, doctoral students at Stanford University, who developed an algorithm called PageRank that ranked web pages by the number and quality of links pointing to them. Their early search engine was first called BackRub, and the google.com domain was registered in 1997. Google was incorporated as a company the following year. Its clean interface, speed and relevant results rapidly won users away from earlier engines, and an advertising system funded its growth. Google Search became the dominant way people find information online and gave the company its name as a verb.
Before and after
- 5 September 1997Death of Mother Teresa
- 6 September 1997Discovery of Caliban
- 6 September 1997Discovery of Sycorax
- from 9 September 1997 to 12 October 2024North Korean calendar
- 15 September 1997Google Search
- 23 September 1997Release of Yandex
- 2 October 1997Amsterdam Treaty
- 10 October 1997Founding of GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development
- 15 October 1997Launch of Cassini−Huygens
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The era
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