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 Current July 10, 2007 the hosted segments of Google Current in the US no longer aired. The same staff later produces "InfoMania" on Current TV. The UK continued to run its own version which was filmed daily in London until the end of 2008. Google Current Google Current was a brief, once every half hour, television program on the channel Current TV. Selected episodes were also available on the Internet. The series tracked not necessarily what the news was, but what people were searching for on Google. The show was the first ever show aired on Current when the network went