Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Google in 1999 with the
capital of 100,000 US dollars. The name Google is a
on the word "googol", which
to the number represented by the numeral 1
by 100 zeros. The use of this term
the company's
to organize the
, seemingly infinite
of information on the
. At that time Page and Brin were students at Stanford University and they were working on the
search
which in the meantime has become so popular that a new word for searching information on the
has been
- "to google". When Google went
in 2004 the
became
overnight. In 2005 Google's
turnover was 6.1
dollars and its
profit rose to 1.5
.