In I995, two computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University collaborated on writing a program for a search engine. Working from their dorm rooms, the pair built a server network using cheap, used, and borrowed personal computers. It was not a cakewalk, but they managed to come up with a path-breaking search engine- Google.
Their attempts to license the product failed miserably. Nobody wanted to take the risk of investing in an advanced product at an early stage of development. When all the doors closed, Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Microsystem appeared as a saviour; he was so impressed by a quick demo of Google that he instantly decided to invest in it. Google Inc. formally came into being in 1998 with the mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google achieved a steady growth since then.
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