The emergence of Google occurred in 1996, when Larry Page And Sergey Brin, two doctoral students at Stanford University, developed a new search algorithm, then dubbed Backrub, which organized results according to their relevance.
25 years ago, in 1998, Google was officially founded and since then, it has become either world's leading search engine. The company is also one of the most valuable on the planet and has a significant impact on modern society.
Google has changed the way people access information and continues to innovate and expand its business. To celebrate a quarter of a century, throughout this article, we will talk about some of the brand's main tools.
Gmail
Launched in 2004, the Gmail is a free email service and one of the great highlights of the company’s universe. Available in more than 100 languages, the platform is used with around 1.8 billion active users per month around the world, being the most popular email service in the United States of America.
Upon its launch, The main highlight of this service was offering 1GB of free storage to users, which, for the time, was something abysmal.
Over the years, Google has introduced new features, such as the organized inbox, advanced search, filters and, something less popular, ads.
Google Maps
One of Google's main tools was born in 2005, as a simple route guidance service. Since then, the Google Maps It has kept up with the times and has been improving.
What started as just a basic mapping platform now has tools such as satellite images, transport information, traffic information, 3D street view (Street View) and local guides.
Today, Google Maps is one of the most popular map services in the world and is used by around billion people around the globe, being a valuable tool, not only in everyday life, but also for those who want to travel and explore new areas.
Youtube
A year after its founding, in 2006, Google acquired YouTube , a sharing platform that was taking its first steps in the newly arrived era of social networks.
The complete transformation carried out by Google led YouTube to success and made it the most famous and most used video platform on the internet.
Creating content for YouTube has become a career astronomical profit for some and, in recent years, be “youtuber” has become the dream of millions of children around the globe.
Android
Perhaps Google's biggest milestone since the launch of the search engine was the introduction of Android, the most used smartphone operating system in the world.
Android was born in 2003, at the hands of a company of the same name, which would later be acquired by Google in 2005. At the time, Android's main focus was the development of a system for digital cameras, but everything changed with the arrival of smartphones.
The success of HTC Dream, in 2008, which was equipped with Android, led the company to follow a new direction and, currently, 81% of the world's smartphones are Android.
Google Chrome
Born in 2008, the Google Chrome It was definitely one of the biggest highlights in Google's history. Today the leader of the global browser market, Chrome is an open source-based browser and, in just 3 years, stole the throne from Internet Explorer as the most used browser in the world.
Based on Chromium, the project that also serves as the basis for browsers such as Opera, Edge and Brave, Google Chrome stands out for its versatility and wide extension store.
Despite the positive points, Chrome is possibly Google's biggest point of controversy: there are several real concerns about its privacy and user data collection.
Bard
Google's most popular and recent tool is Bard. As expected, the technology giant could not stay out of the artificial intelligence race and, after the success of ChatGPT, launched its own AI language model.
In opposition to ChatGPT, Google promised to equip Bard with more capabilities and access to up-to-date information, through search power of your search engine.
Google's goal is to integrate its artificial intelligence tool into all its resources and applications , however, it is impossible to know whether this instrument will be a success, as it was only launched in March 2023.
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