Google is the main search engine used on the web. Google was born from an idea in the heads of two Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met at Stanford in 1995 when Sergey was asked to show the new student, Larry, around. When they started to get to know each other better they decided to create a search engine. Their initial design was for a small engine called BackRub. Their searches, results and names didn't get far. They started over and invented a search engine that can provide an infinite number of results, a number of googol results, and so Google was created. Google was initially used at Stanford and soon spread to America. Google subsequently exploded onto all computers in the United States. When people wanted to find something quickly, you Googled it. Access to everything you wanted was, for the first time on the web, at your fingertips. This fastest of all, the search engine changed encyclopedias and dictionaries at the push of a button. In 1998 Google started having fun. Larry and Sergey decide to go to the Burning Man festival in Arizona. That trip started a series of flavors on the Internet. The first Google Doodle depicted the iconic burning man peering out from behind the Google logo. As Google got bigger, Larry and Sergey couldn't handle everything, so they hired their first employee, Craig Silverstein. He continued to work for over ten years. By December, Google was on the top 100 list and just kept getting better. At the turn of the new millennium, Google won its first Webby Awards. Even more people started using Google, but there was a recurring problem. How can people who speak another language achieve results? The solution was the top ten languages that can be read by Google search. They are French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish. A year later, Google Images was launched. A program where someone can invent images for whatever they want. When Google started to become more and more popular in America, they decided to open an international office in Tokyo. At the end of the year Google launched Zeitgeist, which is an overview of Google searches and trending headlines that occurred during that year. In 2002, AdWords was released.
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