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Oh, Google, You've Grown So Much!

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 29, 2007

Hard to believe, but Google celebrated its ninth birthday this week. Google's corporate Web site says the company opened its doors in September 1998 and celebrates its birthday on whatever date 'people feel like having cake.' It appears they felt like having cake Thursday.

In honor of the little search engine that could, we present some Google tidbits.

24 and 23

The ages of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they met as graduate students at Stanford University in 1995. (Page was 24, Brin 23.)

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000
Google got its name from the word 'googol,' which refers to a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The company chose to play on that term to represent its mission to organize the immense amount of information available online.

Sept. 15, 1997

Domain name www.google.com was registered.

Sept. 7, 1998

The company was incorporated.

3

The number of important perks in the office Page and Brin set up in a friend's garage in September 1998: a washer, a dryer and a hot tub.

1

A former chef of the Grateful Dead was hired to cook for the company in its early stages.

$85

The price of shares in Google's initial public offering Aug. 19, 2004. (According to a CNN.com poll from that day, 75 percent of readers did not think the shares were worth that much.)

$567.27

The closing share price Friday.

894 million

The number of results when you 'Google' the word 'Google' - on Google, of course.

Corrie Benfield

Sources: Google, searchengineland.com

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