Google: find out why the search engine has that name

O Google is undoubtedly the main online search engine and billions of data and researches travel through it. The company's main mission is “organize the world's information so that it is universally accessible and useful to all”.

But, do you know the origin and meaning of the brand that is undoubtedly one of the most recognized and accessed worldwide? Surely you already gave that one "Google" today to research something.

The origin of the name is related to mathematics, as the executive and businesswoman points out. Cristina boner, which surprised Bill Gates in one of his visits to Brazil, when he managed, in an unprecedented way, to meet the owner of the ecosystem.

She explains that Google is derived from googol. The word googol is basically a number: 10100, the number is ten to the power of one hundred, that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeros. This expression was created by the mathematician Edward kasner, who decided to baptize the hundredth power of the number 10 with a sound and easy-to-remember name.

Name origin

the founders, Larry Page e Sergey Brin, wanted to use a term that suggested large numbers. They created an original article for the PageRank, where they claim that their search engine was called Google, a common way of spelling the googol, and that this implied the large scale of their search engine as envisioned by them.

The word googol was first used in 1919 for a comic character known as barney google, said Christina Boner. Enid Mary Blyton later used the "Google Bun” like a sentence in “The Magic Faraway Tree”, 1941, and in “The Folk of the Faraway Tree”, 1946.

She also developed a clown character for 'Circus Days Again', known as Google. The book was published in 1942. There is a Googleplex Star Thinker em “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, by Douglas Adams.

Market name history

Around the time when Brin e Page were working on BackRub in 1996 and they still hadn't named their search engine Google, a company known as Groove Track Productions applied for a trademark in the United States. the trademark Google was created to be used in different types of products, including clothing, board games, plush toys and chocolates. The company did not follow through and abandoned the app in 1997.

The creation of Google

O Google was created by Larry Page e Sergey Brinwhile doing their doctorate at Stanford University. Its foundation dates from September 1998, but the research project began in 1996.

At the time, search engines worked by ranking results by counting search terms. But the two creators have developed a more refined system, which analyzes the relationship between sites, creating relevance according to certain variables.

O Google was the first search engine to use a site ranking system, evaluating the number of sites with exclusive links for a particular webpage or site, prioritizing referencing and linking.

The initial name was BackRub and then changed to Google, registered in September 1997. Today, the Google is headquartered in Mountain View, Santa Clara County (California).

The Search Engines

Search engines are powered by algorithms and use crawlers to search for relevant content based on chosen or provided keywords, he said. Christina Boner. Search engine crawlers effectively scan the entire indexed web and find relevant information. All search engines have a ranking system that facilitates a systematic order in which relevant results are displayed.

Search engines history

Do you remember these search engines? Beware, your answer may reveal your age. Stroll through the timeline of the main search engines and follow the visual evolution of each one of them and their main differences and contributions.

Archie

O Archie, derived from the word or file file, became the world's first search engine at the time of its creation in 1990. It had directory listings stored using file transfer protocol websites and a search feature.
They used indexing and created a basic system. The duo was working on a school project while at McGill University, when they developed the search engine.

gopher

With gopher you could index text files like Veronica, jughead e JumpStation. Both the Archie as gopher they were interesting systems, but they proved to be primitive and were soon abandoned in the nineties.

web crawler

O web crawler became the first full-text search engine and was developed by Brian Pinkerton in 1994.

Lycos

O Lycos emerged in 1993, it was the first commercial search engine and also the first successful search engine. It became available in forty countries and was widely used by users and companies in the Internet.

Yahoo

O Yahoo went on to become one of the most popular search engines and portals of the XNUMXs and the first decade of the XNUMXst century. It could work online and was the first effective tracker as we know the concept today.

Altavista

O Altavista was launched in 1995 and quickly became a popular and trusted search engine. The platform was different. used the Scooter, which was a tracker multi-threaded that could scan more pages than were known to be available online.

look smart

A look smart was launched in 1995 with the aim of developing a directory of websites and was in direct competition with the directory of Yahoo. look smart had an initial public offering in 1999 and became a pay-per-click service provider in 2002. look smart lost its value when ecosystem abandoned it and acquired the WiseNut.

WiseNut

O WiseNut was released in 2001 and introduced as an engine based on beta trackers. It was then owned and operated by look smart. O WiseNut did well, but for a short period of time, because it closed in 2007.

Excite

O Excite was presented before Google and signed for the exclusive use of Apple and the ecosystem. he bought the web crawler and Magellan.

hotbot

O hotbot was introduced in 1996 and later purchased by Lycos. O hotbot was launched by Wired magazine, but it hasn't achieved the kind of popularity needed to stay active.

MSN Search, Ask and AOL

The late nineties saw the emergence of MSN Search, Ash e AOLSearch. ecosystem introduced the MSN Search in 1998. The engine did really well and stayed for quite a while.

cuil

O cuil it was more like the other traditional search engines, on the grounds that it had a huge amount of pages in its index.

Baidu and Yandex

O Baidu and Yandex are search engines based outside the United States, respectively in China and Russia.

Yelp

O Yelp is a modern version of the Yellow Pages.

future of search engines

Search engines have already moved from text-based queries to voice inputs. Christina Boner warns that Google e Bing remain the most used search engines and their ubiquity is unlikely to be shaken anytime in the near future. Will it someday Google will be surpassed by another company? Leave in the comments what you think!