(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University as graduate students in computer science. By January of 1996, the pair began collaborating on writing a program for a search engine dubbed BackRub, named after its ability to do back link analysis.
Next, fueled by the rave reviews that BackRub received, Larry Page and Sergey Brin began working on Google. Operating out of their dorm rooms, the pair built a server network using cheap, used, and borrowed PCs. They maxed their credit cards buying terabytes of disks at discount prices. They tried to license their search engine technology, however, after failing to find anyone that wanted their product at an early stage of development, Page and Brin decided to keep Google, seek more financing, improve the product, and take it to the public themselves.

Let Me Just Write You a Check

The strategy worked and after more development Google finally became a hot commodity. Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Andy Bechtolsheim said after a quick demo of Google, "Instead of us discussing all the details, why don't I just write you a check?"
The $100,000 check was made out to Google Inc., however, Google Inc. as a legal entity did not exist yet. Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated within two weeks, cashed that check, and raised $900,000 more for their initial funding.

In September of 1998, Google Inc. opened in Menlo Park, California and Google.com, a beta search engine, was answering 10,000 search queries every day.

On September 21, 1999, Google officially removed the beta (test status) from its title.

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oh, thats trouble,i have wrote this by myself but i had got someone information from internet.

Haha maybe. Google is definitely an attractive word in my opinion. Easy to remember

That is incorrect. lol

It actually does cost a great amount to run Google. I can't give an exact amount, but I would say somewhere in the millions. Don't forget that Google isn't just a search engine. They run a lot of other services like Google Voice, Gmail, Youtube, Adsense, Google Maps ect. Also Google logs about 2 billion searches a day, so you can say about 300 million people use Google a day and that's just the search engine.

To answer your question though they do make way more money than they spend on running their services. So Google is making a big profit.

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The name "Google" comes from a misspelling of the word "googol". Googol is the largest number known to man. It has 100 zeros behind the first figure.

I guess they chose this name to say they have a googol search results.

google is based of the Googolplex idea of an isane amount of numbers.

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These insane amount of numbers relate to the searches because they are almost infinite.

Whats wrong with you??????

why always when i write a thread , you keep giving me ( no thank)???

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Hey, at least i have wrote some ideas from my mind,

You just copy it from wikipedia

i don't think soooooooooo. that would just be too much money. I wish I owned google =D

i wish i could go back in time and make it my idea like in that one movie. i forgot the name of it O_o

Ugh my question was already answered.. /facepalm