Abstract
Google is a large corporation with many popular products and websites that people use in their everyday life. There is some interesting history about the creators of this search engine and how Google came to be one of the most successful companies in today’s society. The financial data goes to show how successful Google is, and the relevance it holds in today’s technologically inclined population. Their mission statement and management strategy and style show their goals and how they strive to run their business in an ethical manner, keeping their users in mind along the way. There are a few changes and creations that we recommend for Google to do in order to remain pertinent in the ever-changing world it operates in.
When people think of commonly used search engines, Google instantly pops into one’s mind. It is arguable one of the most successful companies today, and it all started with two Stanford college students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. In 1995, Brin was assigned to show Page around the campus, and together they thought of the idea for a website that organizes information and makes it easily accessible (Our History). They wanted a search engine that would search the entire web in one place, as opposed to just sponsored results.
The domain, google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. The name was chosen as a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zero’s (Our History). This serves as a reflection of Page and Brin’s desire to organize the seemingly perpetual amount of information on the internet. In August 1998, Andy Bechtolsheim wrote out a check for $100,000 to a company called, Google Inc., and on September 4 the check was deposited into an open bank account in Google’s name after filing for incorporation (Our History).
The mission statement for Google is, “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”...