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Why is it Called Google?

February 28, 2014 by Adam Lang 5 Comments

Google, the worlds largest search engine, was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company later went public in August 2004. From the beginning, their mission statement was to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. In December 2013, Alexa ranked Google as the number one visited website on the internet.

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