Android刚庆祝5周年，全球设备激活量已达10亿！今天谷歌Google庆祝15岁生日！但Google公司是在98年9月4日注册，域名9月15日注册，多年前与Yahoo竞争做活动推广Doodle时将9月27日当作成立日期！相片里是当时Page和Brin两位租了Wojcicki的车库+房间去创业！
国内车库不普及，很多都在小区内创业，你的呢？
http://www.ideate.co.za/2010/01/25/where-5-internet-businesses-got-started/
Where 5 Internet Businesses Got StartedEver wondered where Google, Youtube and Facebook got started? Michael Dunlop posted an article on where his favourite top internet businesses were started and I thought to share 5 of these businesses with you. Quite a few of these businesses were started in dorm rooms and bedrooms with just laptop and an idea.
1.Facebook
You all should know Facebook by now. Mark Zuckerberg started the social network from his dorm room at Harvard with classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes in the beginning of 2004. In 2007, Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft for $240 million. In other words, by this time Facebook had a market value of $15 billion and last year it was estimated that Facebook has attained over 350 million users.
2. Google
In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded their own search engine known as Backrub in a garage. They decided the name was not suitable and after some brainstorming they came up with Google – a play on the word “googol: which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. By the end of 1998, Google had an index of about 60 million pages.
3. Youtube
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal at the time. After that fateful dinner party, where Hurley and Chen wanted to create a simpler way to share their videos of the night, they went to work at the office creating the answer. In December 2005 Youtube was officially launched. By that time they were serving over three million videos a day.
4. eBay
In 1997, Pierre Omidyar sat down over a long weekend to write the original computer code for what eventually became the auction site eBay. The first name eBay used was Echo Bay Technology. When the company tried to register the domain name echobay.com, they found that it was already in use. They shortened the name to eBay.com and the Website was born. As of July 2008, Omidyar’s 178 million eBay shares were worth around $4.45 billion.
5. LinkedIn
LinkedIn was officially founded in 2003and was launched when the five founders invited about 350 of their most important contacts to join the professional social network. LinkedIn reached profitability in March 2006. At the end of the first month, LinkedIn had a total of 4,500 members.
I hope this inspires you to believe in turning your ideas into a reality. This shows you that it’s possible and that all you need to do is to get started.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/smallbusiness/1103/gallery.business_creation_myths/4.html
Startup lies companies tell you : Google's garage
Google used to rent the garage of this house in Menlo Park, Calif., for $1,700 per month.
The story of Larry Page and Sergey Brin founding Google in a Menlo Park garage is so well-known that the company bought the garage in 2006 as a historical artifact.
History, though, tells a somewhat different story. By the time they set up shop in the garage, Page and Brin had been running Google for two years and had obtained about $1 million in startup capital. The garage move was made in part to help out a friend who needed help paying her mortgage, and was also an homage to Hewlett-Packard's own beginnings.
These "founded in a garage" stories are ubiquitous in America because they indicate that "regardless of how humble your beginnings are, you can turn something into an immense success story if you work hard," Dartmouth business professor Pino Audia, who's extensively studied the garage myth, told NPR in 2009.
The truth, he says, is that even self-starters usually begin on the corporate ladder: "If you want to become an entrepreneur, the obvious thing to do is to first go get a job in an industry you're interested in."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2411002/Happy-birthday-Google-Search-engine-celebrates-15-years-humble-beginnings-Silicon-Valley-garage.html
Happy birthday Google!
Search engine celebrates 15 years since its humble beginnings in a Silicon Valley garage
- September marks the 15th anniversary of when Google began
- Search engine now makes more than 13 billion searches a month
- Google is the number one search engine in the world
- Its Android mobile operating system is now the most popular
September marks 15 years since graduates Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up a small web crawler from a garage in Silicon Valley, which went onto become the world's biggest search engine.
originally called BackRub, but was changed in 1997 to Google a misspelling of the word googol which is a term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros.
There is a little confusion around when Google's official birthday is, but reports claim papers to incorporate the company were filed on September 4 1998. The company became incorporated three days later and the domain was registered on September 15.
A screenshot from the beta version of Google: September marks the 15th anniversary of when Google was first incorporated by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The company started from a garage in Silicon Valley in 1998 and is now the world's largest search engine -with more than 13 billion searches a month
Google, however, now officially celebrates the event with a Google Doodle on September 27. It is thought this date was changed as an attempt to gain media coverage several years ago, at a time when Yahoo was gaining ground on Google.
July 2001 - Images search is launched February 2003 - Google buys blogging platform Blogger March 2004 - Gmail launches October 2004 - Google launches Desktop Search and by reaches 8 billion indexes by December June 2005 - A busy month for Google as it launches Google Earth, Maps, Talk and Video July 2005 - Android is bought by Google October 2006 - Google buys video site YouTube [size=1.2em]September 2008 - Search index reaches 1 trillion and the Chrome browser is unveiled July 2009 - Google launches its Chrome OS for netbooks July 2010 - The first Nexus smartphone handset - the Nexus One - is launched August 2011 - Plans are announced for Google to buy Motorola Mobility March 2012 – Google launches the Play store with TV and movie rentals as well as apps June 2012 - First Google tablet, made by Asus, launches called Nexus 7 and Google Glass is unveiled June 2013 – Google buys mapping and navigation company Waze to boost its mapping software and self-driving car capability une 2013 – Google balloons fitted with internet transmitters launched
 The image, tweeted by Idealabs found Bill Gross shows what Google's self-driving car sees as it turns left. Gross claims the cars collect 1GB of data every second. Google has become a pioneer in forward-looking technology over its 15-year history
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24182576/google-announces-search-upgrades-its-15th-anniversary
Google announces search upgrades on its 15th anniversary09/26/2013
 The house in Menlo Park where Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page once rented the garage and some rooms from Susan Wojcicki.
MENLO PARK -- Fifteen years after two Stanford grad students launched a company called Google ( GOOG), the Internet giant used its first office -- a garage attached to a modest suburban home -- as a stage for showing off the latest upgrades to its famed search engine. The changes unveiled Thursday include a subtle redesign of the Google mobile apps for Android and Apple ( AAPL) devices, intended to make it easier to ask spoken questions in more conversational phrases. In addition, Google can now show comparisons of objects -- such as the nutritional content of different foods, or the characteristics of two planets -- and display samples of songs or works of art in response to a spoken question about a musician or painter. Less obvious, but probably more significant, is a major revamping of the mathematical formula that works behind the scenes to understand questions and provide the best answers Google can find. Google senior vice president Amit Singhal told reporters that the new algorithm represents the biggest change to Google's search formula in three years and was needed because the way people search the Internet is rapidly changing. Fifteen years ago, "if you wanted to find something, you had to think of the right keywords that would appear on the right Web pages," he said. But as people have become more comfortable with searching, especially when using voice-activated search, he explained, they are asking questions that are longer and involve more complex concepts. "And our algorithm had to go through some fundamental rethinking of how we are going to keep our results relevant." The new algorithm, dubbed Hummingbird,  Larry Page's chair from the workspace in the house he and Sergey Brin rented in Menlo Park 15 years ago. (Photo by Brandon Bailey)
was introduced over the past month, although most casual users probably haven't noticed. Singhal compared the overhaul to switching out jet engines while an airplane is in midflight.
Google used the occasion of its 15th anniversary to talk about how far the company has come since its early days as a project of Stanford grad students Larry Page, now Google's CEO, and Sergey Brin, who oversees such offbeat projects as the wearable Glass device and self-driving cars. But Singhal promised that the company isn't sitting on its laurels. "We know we are just getting started," he told reporters. While the company was officially incorporated Sept. 4, 1998, Google usually celebrates the anniversary at the end of September, for reasons that seem to have become lost over time. When Page and Brin started looking for their first off-campus workspace, the dot-com boom was heating up and offices were hard to find. But Susan Wojcicki, then a recent Stanford business school graduate, said she needed help paying her mortgage and offered them her garage and spare rooms. "At the time I didn't really know what to think about this," Wojcicki said Thursday. Now the company's senior vice president for advertising, Wojcicki recalled how the co-founders and a few employees played pingpong and worked late into the night at her home, which sits on a quiet, leafy residential street in Menlo Park. In the 15 years since Google entered what was then a crowded field of Internet search engines, the company has become an online behemoth, reporting more than $50 billion in revenue last year. It now handles more than two-thirds of all Internet search queries in the United States, according to the comScore tracking firm. Its nearest competitor, Microsoft's Bing, handles just under 18 percent. But if Google is the king of search, it only "leases the throne," said Gartner tech analyst Whit Andrews, who warned that Google faces continued competition from Apple's voice-activated Siri, Facebook's internal search service and even IBM's Watson computer.  Susan Wojcicki, Google's senior vice president for ads, stands Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 outside the Menlo Park house that she rented to Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page 15 years ago for their first office space. (Photo by Brandon Bailey)
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-10/st_15googleevil
15th Anniversary: Hooking Google to the Evil Meter
Few companies set out to do bad deeds, but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. When Josh McHugh profiled the young corporation in January 2003, it had one clear and concise rule: "Don't be evil." Ah well, times change. CEO Eric Schmidt recently "clarified" that policy, saying it was simply meant as a conversation starter. "We don't have an evil meter," he groused. Here, you can borrow ours!
7.1 Philanthropy
Creating a foundation devoted to fighting poverty, researching renewable energy, and protecting the environment. Two can play at this game, Mr. Gates.
5.3 Coddling Staff
Establishing on-site day care for lil' Googlers as an employee perk. (Memo to HR: Keep eyes peeled for particularly bright toddlers.)
-2.4 Moral Triage
Giving Brazilian police access to private photo albums on Orkut to assist an investigation into child pornography. The lesser of two evils is still pretty lame.
-4.8 Immaturity
Responding to Privacy International's last-place ranking of Google with "U R BIAS!"
-6.7 Screwing Staff
Raising the cost of onsite childcare to ridiculous levels in order to have the best day care on Earth. $57,000 per year? Seriously, Sergey?
-8.3 Censorship
Instituting keyword filters per request of the People's Republic of China. Further "clarification": Google company policies apply only within the continental US.
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