Google is celebrating its 25th anniversary today, marking a significant impact on daily life as the world’s most popular website.
Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, the search engine initially began as BackRub and later adopted the name ‘Google’ from the word ‘googol.’
By 1999, Page and Brin moved their company from a Californian garage to state-of-the-art offices at Mountain View, California.
The following two decades saw Google diversify into nearly every area of technology.
It launched and acquired countless products and services including smartphones, software, hardware, driverless cars and YouTube.
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Over the years, Google diversified into various technology areas, including smartphones, software, hardware, driverless cars, and YouTube.
While facing challenges from emerging AI technologies like ChatGPT, experts believe Google’s dominance is likely to endure due to users’ low tolerance for errors in generative systems.