The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"[43][44] which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin write in their original paper on PageRank [45]: "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."
Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 4, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.
Dicho motor es resultado de la tesis doctoral de Larry Page y Sergey Brin (dos estudiantes de doctorado en Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Stanford) para mejorar las búsquedas en InternetGoogle" fue registrado el 15 de septiembre de 1997
Contaban con un servidor con 80 CPU, y dos routers HP.7 Este motor de búsqueda superó al otro más popular de la época
Aunque su principal producto es el buscador
, un servicio de correo electrónico llamado Gmail, su mapamundi en 3D Google Earth, el navegador web Google Chrome, y su más reciente creación, el servicio de red social Google+
In March 1999, the company moved into offices at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups.[16] After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 2003.[17] The company has remained at this location ever since, and the complex has since become known as the Googleplex (a play on the word googolplex, a number that is equal to 1 followed by a googol of zeros). In 2006, Google bought the property from SGI for $319 million.[18]