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By Mike Pantoliano

Advertising Programs – Business Solutions – About Google

©2004 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages

• Sergey Brin and Larry Page

• Develop BackRub and try to find a buyer

• Turn up empty

• Decide to go at it on their own

• Receive initial investment of $1 million

• Have to decide on a name

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The History of Google

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Naming Google

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• Google’s blank check

• The googol: 1 followed by 100 zeroes

• Will eventually name company’s headquarters the GooglePlex, after googolplex: 1 followed by 1 googol zeroes.

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Google operates out of a garage

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• September 7, 1998, Google Inc. begins first day as a corporation – Out of a friend’s garage

• Google beta site begins to generate interest with 100,000 queries per day

• Press starts to take notice

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$25 Million Dollar Investment

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• Still expanding, Google moves to a new office

• Staff reaches 8 people

• Site continues to grow with 500,000 queries per day

• On June 7th, 1999, Google announces it has received a $25 million dollar investment

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The GooglePlex

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• Google moves again to Mountain View, CA

• Still where Google operates today with its 1900 employees

• On September 21, 1999, the beta label comes off the site

• Google wins a number of awards

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Google on the Verge

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• In 2000, Google receives award for being best search on the web

• Google announces an index increase, becomes largest search engine

• Usage skyrockets to 60 million searches per day

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Where is Google today?

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• Today Google receives about 81.9 unique users today

• Google offers its search in 97 different languages

• Site index just increased from 4 billion to 8 billion pages last week

• Google offers a number of other services and is now a publicly traded company

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Google’s Financial Performance

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• Debuted on NASDAQ with IPO of $85 dollars per share

• Reported very profitable first post-IPO quarter in Q3 2004

• Stock has soared to currently around $185 per share

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Google’s Methods of Income

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• Advertising– AdSense – AdWords

• Google Search Appliance

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Google Tools

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• Google News, Google Image Search, Froogle, etc.

• Gmail

• Google Desktop Search

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Competition for Google

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• Major competitor: Microsoft

• Others include Yahoo, Amazon, AOL

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Whats Next for Google?

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• The element of surprise

• GBrowser?

• GIm?

• GOs?

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Image References

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• All images taken from: Google.com