Google was founded in 1996 by two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, called BackRub. They later changed their name BackRub to Google. They officially registered the Google.com domain name on September 15, 1997.
The first grant for Larry Page and Sergey Brin was $100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, founder of Sun Microsystems.
With this amount of money, Google officially has its headquarters in the garage of house number 232 Santa Margarita Avenue, Menlo Park on September 4, 1998. After Google was successful, the couple bought the entire house in 2006 as a souvenir.
In 1999, Excite almost "broke" Google for $750,000 in cash by CEO George Bell. However, the deal failed due to persistent reasons, and Google continued its own path.
In March 1999, Google officially moved to its first death office on University 165 Avenue in Palo Alto in the same building with Apple and Logitech.
Shortly after, Google called for $25 million in risky capital from Kleiner Perkins Caufield, Byers and Sequoia Capital.
2000 marked an important turning point when Google launched the AdWords keyword advertising service. At this time, Google is officially known to the world as a huge money-making tool.
In 2001, Brin and Page hired Schmitd, page's CEO, to replace him. The hiring of Schmitd was to separate the roles of the two founders, with the aim of focusing on technology specifically for Google.
April 1, 2004 Google announced Gmail.
After the initial stock issuance (IPO) on August 19, 2004 with a price per share of $85, Google began to expand to the search business field.
Google is starting to take over smaller technology companies. In 2005, Google bought Android, and in 2006 they bought YouTube for 1.65 billion USD.
In 2008, Google launched the first Android smartphone along with the Chrome web browser. Chrome design has increased the number of Google users seeing it.
In 2011, Google launched the social network Google Plus (or Google+). At that time, Google+ was considered a formidable rival of Facebook. However, that has not happened, forcing Google to integrate the use of Google+ accounts into its other services, such as when commenting on YouTube or Google Play Store, and not everyone feels comfortable with that.
After 10 years of dedication, Schmidt has resigned as CEO of Google but still holds his executive position in the group of 3 people. In 2012, Google launched the Glass smart glasses market.
In 2015, Google reformed its organizational structure, forming parent company Alphabet. Sundar Pichai - head of Google Chrome became CEO of this search company. This was also the time when Schmidt stepped out of the executive chair, but he was still a technical consultant and a major shareholder of Alphabet.
As of the second quarter of 2018, although profits decreased due to the EU's 5 billion USD fine, Alphabet still reported revenue of 3.2 billion USD. Google's total revenue in the second quarter reached 32.7 billion USD.
After 20 years of establishment and development, with the right orientations from the top, Google has become a strong empire, changing the search methods of the whole world.
