The Evolution of Google : A Visual Timeline

Thanks to the team of Infographiclabs ( via BlogHerald )



Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site ( somethingh what we know today is the page rank algorithm, which ranks all web pages according to their popularity by checking the backlinks or which credible site links to it )


The Initial name for this search engine was Googol which , they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol",[ the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people. Originally, Google ran under the Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu

The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki ) garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow Ph.D. student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.

Details of Google’s data Centres

Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day.

Google has disclosed the sites of four new facilities announced in 2007, but many of its older data center locations remain under wraps. Much of Google’s data center equipment is housed in the company’s own facilities, but it also continues to lease space in a number of third-party facilities. According to DataCenterKnowledge website,Google 's data Center are spread over the following regions.

UNITED STATES

•Mountain View, Calif.
•Pleasanton, Calif.
•San Jose, Calif.
•Los Angeles, Calif.
•Palo Alto, Calif.
•Seattle
•Portland, Oregon
•The Dalles, Oregon
•Chicago
•Atlanta, Ga. (two sites)
•Reston, Virginia
•Ashburn, Va.
•Virginia Beach, Virginia
•Houston, Texas
•Miami, Fla.
•Lenoir, North Carolina
•Goose Creek, South Carolina

INTERNATIONAL

• Toronto, Canada
• Berlin, Germany
• Frankfurt, Germany
• Munich, Germany
• Zurich, Switzerland
• Groningen, Netherlands
• Mons, Belgium
• Eemshaven, Netherlands
• Paris
• London
• Dublin, Ireland
• Milan, Italy
• Moscow, Russia
• Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Tokyo
• Hong Kong
• Beijing

Most of the international locations likely are for network peering or to house servers supporting the more than 30 country-specific versions of the Google search engine.