Hostel to Top: Google Celebrates Anniversary

The most popular Google search engine celebrates its 25th anniversary on Monday. Google was created as a scientific project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were graduate students of Stanford University in the late 1990s.

Working in their hostels, Page and Brin developed a new algorithm for search engines that evaluated websites based on the number of other sites that refer to them. This algorithm was called PageRank and turned out to be much more effective than existing algorithms. Thanks to this, Google quickly became the most popular search engine on the Internet.

Last month, the share of the Google market was about 92%. Its closest competitor, Bing, occupied about 3% of the market, and Yahoo – a little more than 1%.

The name Google comes from the mathematical term “Googol”, which indicates the number 1, which follows 100 zeros. This choice reflects the intention of the founders to systematize a huge amount of information.

Over the years, the Google search engine has become an integral part of our daily lives, forming the ways we are looking for, communicate, and interact with information on the network.