Why Is Google So Great?

Google was founded in 1998 by three students: Stanford Ph.D., Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google offers its services through its public site, www.google.com. The company offers web search solutions for those who seeek information. At this time, Google has a database of more than eight billion sites, making it the simplest and fastest way of finding information on the web.


The term “Google” derived from “googol” which was given by Milton Sirotta, the nephew of the American mathematician Edward Kasner, the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google uses this term to reflect the company’s mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web.

Google’s mission is to provide the best experience searching the Internet, making the information public the world, accessible and useful. Google, the developer of the largest search engine in the world, offers the fastest and easiest way to find information on the web. For example, by accessing more than 1.3 billion pages, Google delivers relevant results to users and the world, usually in less than half a second.

Innovative search technology and elegant design of the interface differentiates Google from other search engines of the first generation. Instead of using technology to search only by keyword or tag, Google is based on the patented PageRank technology, which ensures that the most important results are always displayed first. PageRank measures the important pages and calculates with the help of a formula with more than 500 million variables and more than 2 billion terms. PageRank uses the vast link structure as a tool for organizational web. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a “vote” by page A for page B. Google assesses a page’s importance after the votes it receives. Google also analyzes the page which distributes the votes.

The overwhelming amount of information requires a great web search service to make the information accessible and useful. Without a rapid and powerful search tool, finding a specific website can be very difficult if not impossible. Google provides the information correctly and in order.

Google is designed to impose order in the chaos of information. This is what a search service is suposed to be, not a directory, or a limited list, maintained manually whose positions are allocated only once by the first user.This is a smart way to portray the Internet as it really is.

Google provides more than one billion of the Google index URLs that contain more than 1 billion URLs, having the best and the richest collection of the most useful sites on the Internet. The information comes from the Capital website, which analyzed the Google company.

Google only returns pages that include the terms you’ve entered. Unlike many other search engines, Google displays results that include all search terms, either in the text page or the page address. You have no more frustration once you get on those pages, given by the fact that those have nothing in common with what you want.

Google satisfies your need for information by showing various pages that may contain the information you seek. Unlike many other search engines, Google gives priority to group search terms. The search engine favors the results if your search terms are grouped, thus you will spend less time searching through irrelevant results.

Google offers a relevant summary for each product instead of a summary that never changes; Google extracts the text matching the words you have entered in the Search box from the pages added to its servers.

Google can make you feel lucky. Google saves the web pages in its memory to be able to make them available to you in case the original site is unavailable. The use of these pages can often be much faster than the usual, even if the information may no longer be updated. Google excels in giving the security the first result in regular searches is the one you are looking for. The are so confident when talking about this, so that they have installed a button called “I’m Feeling Lucky“, which takes you directly to a certain website, which in other circumstances will appear only after performing a regular search.

The first page is so empty because the founder did not know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. Since the first page is so available for different images, texts and others, those who are not familiar with it, even today wait in front of the screen for something to appear.

In the early stage, Google did not have a search button; you had to hit the Enter key to start a search. Google has restricted automated requests from other sites, which can consume significant resources and at the same time that help them to increase artificially their rank.

The free email service, Gmail was used internally almost two years before being publicly released. Researchers found six types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to satisfy the requirements for a larger audience. Following a trademark dispute with London-based Independent International Investment Research, the e-mail service recently changed its name into Google Mail.

It would take 5707 years for a person to look into only 3 billion pages of Google search engine, search which normally is performed by Google in 0.5 seconds.

The logos that appear on the home page during certain days and important events are called Google Doodle. The company created an online museum where are all the logos that have been made so far, with some occasions, are present. They were created by Dennis Hwang, a Korean artist home set in the USA.

Google provides many services included in different categories: Desktop Products, Standalone Applications, Desktop Extensions, Mobile Products, Online Mobile Products, Downloadable Mobile Products, Web Products, Account Management, Advertising, Communication and Publishing, Development, Mapping, Search, Statistics and Hardware Products.

The services delivered by Google are: Google Ad Manager, Google Accounts, Google Adsense, Alerts, Analytics, Adwords, Apps, Base, Google Blogsearch, Bookmarks, Books, Calendar, Google Checkout, Code, Contacts, Feedburner Google, Google Docs, Google Directory, Groups, Health, Finance, Labs, Google Mail, History, Picasa, Web, Google Maps, Google Reader, Google Scholar, Shopping Sites, Google Translate, Google Trends, Video, News, Google Voice and Google Webmaster Tools.