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Google Turns 10 - Looking back & forward
Believe it or not, the most powerful Internet company on the planet was nothing more than a school project a decade ago.
In 10 short years, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Standford University graduate students took their project to retrieve relevant info from massive databases (originally called "BackRub" because of it's analysis of back links) and turned it into the 800 lb gorilla of the Internet.
Most of us use one or many of the resources that Google has created everyday often without even realizing that Google is behind it.
Listen in as we take a stroll down memory lane and examine all of the contributions, hits, misses and future potential of Google.
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Original Air Date: Sep 6, 2008
This Week's Links
- In the begining, it was called BackRub
- Google's past 10 years in pictures
- Microsoft vs Google at age 10
- Looking beyond Google as a search engine
- What's cooking at Google?
- Some of Google's hits and misses
- Browsing the Internet with Google Chrome
- Speed test: Google Chrome beats them all
- Google 10 years from now
- "Google" becomes an official verb
- Why did they decide to call it Google?
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