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Apart from the birthday celebrity of the day, did you know that a thing was invented or made or created this day in history which has for several years changed our life!
We use it so often that it is routine!
Intrigued!?
Read on!
The running joke about computer users is that the Internet explorer or the Safari is the most commonly used browser to download the actually most commonly used browser; Google Chrome!
Chrome has an amazing interface and ease of use! We love the start page of search and use it so much! In fact Chrome has a user share of more than 60 percent!
But chrome was not made or created today! It was its parent company, the Google!
For every system person or anyone for that matter, Google search is the best and easiest way to test whether the computer is connected to the internet or not! Just make sure you have a new search since the old search is still stored in the system!
Slowly, AI is replacing Google as the default for many complicated searches but still if you want to know something then Google it was the norm!
During the COVID lockdown and the online classes, many kids used to even Google answers to questions posed by the teacher! The teacher used to be so impressed! I am sure she realised that later since whenever she used to ask a question she would tell that kid to turn on his or her video!
Google has become so much a part of our lives that it is impossible to even think without it! The smartphone has robbed our smartness!
Alexa may have scored in the voice assistant department, but when it comes to proper search, Google is the best for now!
The other day we heard a song played by our tour guide in Georgia and I recorded it. Later all I had to do was play it to Google and voila it found it!
Google is the best memory refresher! Remember that movie with that story line or that movie which was released in that year or that pair which acted in that movie!
Or my son’s favourite question; how old is that guy in the screen! Of course first sometimes I have to search who is that guy!
Everyday I search for the birthday celebrity of the day in Google then if I find someone worthy enough then I use the Google Image search to get a good picture of the person for the sketch!
Without Google it is impossible to think what to do!
For those with android phones, it is the default but even in my iPhone, the first thing myself or many do is to install Chrome to access Google! Gmail is the best and default mail for many and Google Maps are the leaders!
Slowly and steadily though many are coming and very soon the monopoly would go! It is hard to imagine that even Google can be replaced but then who would have thought that Nokia would go or there can be no better invention than the Yahoo messenger!?
It is not that Google has only success! Ironically you can search in Google about its own failure! Like every account in Fb has a dark past in Orkut!
So how did this engine come about?
So Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as “BackRub”, with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg. The search engine soon proved successful and the expanding company moved several times.
Originally the search engine used Stanford’s website with the domains google.stanford.edu and stanford.edu
The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997.
And finally they formally incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998 in their friend Susan Wojcicki’s garage in Menlo Park, California!
By the way even this piece of History I got when I searched for This day in History in Google! Even the fact that today’s birthday celebrity has acted in over 300 films and his full name is Anant Nagarkatte is courtesy Google!
Thank you Larry and Sergey for Google! Till something better comes along, we will simply Google it!
Now Stop trying to Google the above information and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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