How Google Works — Part 1
The Evolution of the Search Engine and Their Other Services
This is the beginning of a 3-Part series breaking down how the largest search engine on the planet functions on a daily basis. In this series, we’ll go over how Google has evolved since its introduction in 1998, Google’s other services, how they earn their money, and finally all the things that go on behind the scenes to give people a smooth experience.
In this part, we’ll look at how Google has changed over the years and everything it’s resulted in today.
Google’s Evolution
The Birth of Google
The story of Google began at the beginning of 1996 serving as a research project for two Stanford University students. These two students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wanted to try something different than the other search engines of the time.
Pretty much every other search engine, during this era, used an algorithm that ranked the search results based on how many times the item you were looking for appeared in each item. Larry, Sergey, and Scott Hassan (the lead programmer who left Google…
