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 China Chinese Google News was renamed from "Google 新闻" to "Google 资讯". On 26 January 2006, Google launched its China-based google.cn search page, with results subject to censorship by the Chinese government. In 2006 Google used its Chinese name, GǔGē ("harvest song"), but it never caught on with Chinese internet users. On 12 April 2006, Google's Global CEO Eric Schmidt announced Google's Chinese name as "谷歌" in Beijing. Google officially entered the Chinese mainland market. Since September 2006 the office of Google China has been a ten-floor building in Kejian Building in the Tsinghua Science Park. In March 2009 China blocked