20 years of Google — what would we do without it?

Graham Jones
Sep 4, 2018 · 6 min read

So, Google is no longer a teenager. Today it celebrates being 20-years-old having been incorporated on 4th September 1998. Its gestation was long, having initially been born in January 1996 in a Californian garage. Indeed, Google may never have made it had it not been for the “midwifery” of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos who was one of the first three investors in the fledgeling business.

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Graham Jones is an Internet Psychologist who helps business understand online customer behaviour http://www.grahamjones.co.uk

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