A research paper in Comscie 1
Presented to
Prof. January D. Febro
Department of computer Science
Mindanao State University
Presented by:
DIMARONSING, RAINIDAH P.
MARCH 2014
TOPIC: GOOGLE
THESIS STATEMENT: Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and online advertising technologies.
I- INTRODUCTION
II- EARLY HISTORY OF GOOGLE
A) Late 1990’s
B) 2000’s
III- Financing and initial public offering
IV- GROWTH
A) 2004
B) 2005
C) 2006
V- CURRENT GROWTH
VI- QUERY EXPANSION
VII- SPECIAL FEATURES
VIII- SEARCH OPTION
IX- CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol", which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin write in their original paper on PageRank:"We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100 and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines."
There are uses of the name going back at least as far as the creation of the comic strip character Barney Google in 1919. Enid Blyton used the phrase "Google Bun" in The Magic Faraway Tree (published 1941) The Folk of the Faraway Tree (published 1946), and called a clown character "Google" in Circus Days Again (published 1942). There is also the Googleplex Star Thinker from Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy. In March 1996 a business called Groove Track Productions applied for a United States trademark for "Google" for various products including several categories of clothing, stuffed toys, board games, and candy. The firm abandoned its application in July 1997[verification needed]
Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb "google" was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning "to
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