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Top 3 facts about Google

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Alex Miller
Top 3 facts about Google

1. Google was created as a student project


Sergey Brin and his friend Larry Page created google.com during their years at Stanford University. Unlike other search engines, their project was able to analyze the links between different sites. This system eventually got the name PageRank and became the headache and bread of all SEO-optimizers for many years.

2.The name Google Incorporated is a coincidence


When Sergey Brin presented his project to Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, he became interested. But in a hurry I wrote a check for $ 100 thousand in the name of Google Incorporated. In order for them to be removed, it was necessary to have a legal entity with exactly that name.

3.Google wanted to buy Yandex


15 years ago, in 2003, Brin and Page were in Moscow and stopped by their colleagues. After the meeting, they corresponded for about a year and suggested that Yandex become a part of Google. Initially, it was about a $ 30 million contract, but by the end of the negotiations, this amount had grown to $ 130 million.

When Google's lawyers finally came to Russia to conclude an agreement, it turned out that the American company wanted to make a takeover, not a merger, and make the founders of Yandex hired employees. Obviously, after such a turn, the negotiations were terminated and Google for a long time could not make its search engine friendly with the Russian language.

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