When was the searcher born?
Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page y Sergey Brin, two Stanford PhD.

How did the searcher born?
Larry Page y Sergey Brin met in 1995 when they were 24 and 23 years old in a ceremony organized by the University of Stanford. They both had a common goal: to get relevant information trough an important data base. In January 1996 they started working with another searcher called BackRub. Larry started to work in hot to get an environment for servers that could work with not very powerful PCs. A year later the technology that BackRub was using to analyze the links started to be known allover the campus. This was the basis for Google. The name is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, it refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.

How did it evolve? (Brief history of the searcher)
Larry and Sergey continued working to perfect their technology through the first half of 1998, building their own computer housings in Larry's dorm room, which became Google's first data center. Meanwhile the two began calling on potential partners who might want to license a search technology better than any then available. Despite the dotcom fever of the day, they had little interest in building a company of their own around the technology they had developed.

Among those they called on was friend and Yahoo! founder David Filo. Filo encouraged Larry and Sergey to grow the service themselves by starting a search engine company after it was fully developed. Although the potential was big others were less interested in Google, as hey thought having a searcher was not so important.

Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, needed only one look to see that Google had a lot of potential. One look at a demo was enough: he gave them a check for U$$ 100.000 made out to Google Inc. But There was a small dilemma: There was no company called Google Inc., so there was no way to deposit the check. A couple of weeks later they decided to get new investors among their family, friends and acquaintances in order to set up a corporation.
On September 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, California, a luxurious place compared to where it was before. Already Google.com, still in beta, was answering 10,000 search queries each day. The press began to take notice of the upstart website with the relevant search results.

In 1999 they got 25 U$$ millions form to leading capitals: Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers. The modest offices were now small for all Google directors and workers, so they moved to Googleplex, the current headquarters in Mountain View, California.

New and important clients arrived, as an example AOL/Netscape, that selected Google as it web search service, pushing traffic levels past 3 millions searches per day. What had been a college research project was now a real company offering a service that was in great demand.

On September 21 of 1999 the beta label definitely came off the web site.

Where are its headquarters?
Google Inc.
2400 Bayshore Parkway; Mountain View, Calif. 94043
Telephone: 650.330.0100
Fax: 650.618.1499
Email: info@Google.com
Web: www.Google.com

Who are its owners/stock holders? Where is it traded?
Google is a private company. Some of its investors are: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Sequoia Capital; Stanford University; Andy Bechtolsheim, cofounder of Sun Microsystems and current vice-president of Cisco Systems; and Ram Shriram, who was president of Junglee and vie-president of Business Development in Amazon.com.

What’s its philosophy?
Google’s philosophy remains the same since it appeared: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google continues growing to discover new search technologies that will improve the users life.
Organization chart and personnel (departments, number of employees, etc.):
Google has more than 800 employees.

Management Crew:
Dr. Eric E. Schmidt, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer.
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology .
Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products.
George Reyes, Chief Financial Officer.
Wayne Rosing, Vice President, Engineering .
Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations.
David C. Drummond, Vice President, Corporate Development.
Jonathan Rosenberg, Vice President, Product Management.
Tim Armstrong, Vice-president, Advertising Sales.
Joan Braddi, Vice-president, License Sales.
Urs Hölzle, Google Scholarship.
Craig Silverstein, Director, Technology.
Cindy McCaffrey, Vice President, Corporate Marketing.
John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital
Ram Shriram

What services does it offer?
Webs, images, newsgroups searcher. It has a webs directory organized by themes, supplied by ODP.

How does the searcher work?
Google’s innovative search technology and its interface user design are what make it different from the latest search machines. It is based on hypertexts, analyzing all the content of each web and every term’s position in it. Priority is given to the results according to their proximity with the search criteria, the most considered are those which are close among each other without losing time in analyzing irrelevant results.

What are the criteria used for ordering the search results?
Google is based in the PageRank technology, which assures that the most important results are showed first. PageRank measures objectively the importance of the web pages. It is calculated to solve an equation of 500 millions of variables and more than 2.000 terms. Goolge’s complex automatic search results allow to work free of human work. It is structured in such a way that it is impossible to buy a privileged position in the lists or alter any results with commercial ends. /nobody can buy a higher PageRank for example).

How many links does you data base own?
More than 3.000 millions of web-pages.

How many searches does it perform a month?
More than 5,000 millions of searches. Approximately 200 millions of searches a day.

How does Google make money?
Google sells its search technology (Google WebSearch™ and Google SiteSearch™), including a complete suite of possibilities and functions which are completely automatic. Many web sites and corporate web site around the world have chose Google’s technology for their search necessities.
Advertising is another source of incomes. Google offers the advertisers two advertising systems: Premium Sponsorship (an apparent text link appears in the superior part of the results page in Google when the key word or phrase that was bought is included in the users’ search) and AdWords (a Click cost system totally personal where you pay only when the users click in the advertisement).
Besides Google also owns an online shop where it sells all kinds of merchandising related to the brand (http://www.Googlestore.com).
Kind of advertising that are allowed in the searcher (banners campaign, Click Payment, etc.): AdWords y Premium Sponsorship (see above for more information).