History of Google History of Google The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most widely used web-based search engine. Page and Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithmat first known as "BackRub"in 1996. The search engine soon proved successful and the expanding company moved several times, finally settling at Mountain View in 2003. This marked a phase of rapid growth, with the company making its initial public offering in 2004 and quickly becoming one of the world's largest media companies. The company launched Google
Google Lively without the need to enter a separate program. Engineering manager Niniane Wang supervised this Google project, described in "The New York Times" by Brad Stone: Wang introduced her product July 8, 2008 with this comment: Gadgets in Lively rooms could also run on a user's desktop through Google Desktop. Google Lively Google Lively was a web-based virtual environment produced by Google Inc.. It was discontinued on December 31, 2008. Lively was only supported on Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, using Windows XP or Windows Vista. It required a special download as well as Flash. The program was designed to be