The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.
Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock.
Which search engine giant was originally named âJerryâs Guide to the World Wideâ? â 2017 by Alex on January 24, 2018 Which search engine giant was originally named âJerryâs Guide to the World Wideâ? â Google â Yahoo â Bing â AOL. Answer: Co-founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo while they were PhD students at Stanford, the company that would become a leading search engine and pioneer of the internet used to go by a much lesser known name. The search engine giant began as Jerryâs Guide to the World Wide Web, but by 1995 the founders realized theyâd need something a bit more concise, so they renamed the company Yahoo! â an acronym for âYet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.â