If you have’nt heard of Google you must be living on some remote island. Google has been the No 1 source of internet traffic for many years and it is hard to imagine the internet coming this far without them. Google describes itself as……..
“Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Beginning in 1996, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine called “BackRub” that used links to determine the importance of individual web pages. By 1998 they had formalized their work, creating the company you know today as Google.
Since then, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. From offering search in a single language we now offer dozens of products and services—including various forms of advertising and web applications for all kinds of tasks—in scores of languages. And starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world.”
You can read more about Google at http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/
Google is such a large topic that I will not be able to cover it all in a months worth of posting so stick around and we will update you on Google News and what products they offer over the coming weeks, Months, Years….