September marks 15 years since the total graduates Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a small The web service from a garage in Silicon Valley, who later managed to become the number one search engine in the world. The website was originally called BackRub, but was changed in 1997 on Google - a misspelling of the word googol, which is a term for a number followed by a hundred zeros.
There is some confusion about Google's official birthday, but reports say the company incorporated documents were submitted on 4 September 1998. The company was incorporated tra days later and the domain was registered on September 15.
Google, however, now officially celebrates the event with a Google Doodle on 27 September.
It is thought that this date was changed in an effort to gain media coverage from several years ago, at a time when Yahoo was gaining more ground.
Google is now the largest tank engine and his name has become so synonymous with search, that is now used as a verb in its own right.
Size and his reputation grew rapidly in the early years, with more than three billion indices in December 2001. Other Google services that have become part of everyday life include Google Maps, Google Street View and Google Earth, each showing how far the company stretches across the globe.
Its Android operating system is the most popular software in the world and is united with manufacturers, including Asus and LG to bring to market devices such as the Nexus 4 smartphone and tablet Nexus 7.
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