Google Corporate History

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Audience/Grade:	College Freshman - Continuing Education
Discipline(s):	Computer Science Information Systems Information Technology
Learning Resource Type:	Reference - Article/Document
Media Type:	WWW
Author(s):	Google Inc.
Description:	"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second." The word "Google" is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
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Publication Date:	2008
Platform/Format:	WWW
Cost:	Free
Download URL:	http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html
Metadata:	IEEE LOM Record
Collection:	NEEDS