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GOOGLE BACKGROUND STORY
Perhaps there is no greater testament to Google’s success than the fact that it has become
a verb. We google for information in the same sense as we drink water. However, Google as a
company has grown far beyond search. In this article, we’ll look at the story behind Google’s
success.
It is impossible to overstate how important Google’s IPO was to the Internet, Silicon
Valley and the stock market overall. As the New York Times said on the day after the company
filed to go public, it was “as if the dot-com glory days never ended.” Google’s success was
validation that the Internet as a social, cultural, and (most importantly) a financial phenomenon
was not dead. The revolution had merely been resting… regrouping… gathering steam. But
Google was also proof that not only were some of the original ideas from the dotcom era still
valid, some new ideas might also be out there ready to build on the dotcom era’s faded promise.
Within Google itself, there were whispers of exciting new projects, like, for example, some sort
of a Google “phone” so that searchers could get answers to queries at any moment no matter
where they were. More than anything, Google’s success provided the template to make these
new ideas to be profitable. And so, just as with the Netscape IPO nearly a full decade before, a
generation took notice: There was fire in Silicon Valley again.
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do.
Today, with more than 73,992 employees in 50 different countries, Google makes hundreds of
products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Smartbox
and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few
more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us —
from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day. As of the most recently reported year,
this 2018, the American multinational internet company, headquartered in Mountain View,
California, had 73, 992 full-time employees. It was never mention how many employees started
in Google way back the founding year but one thing is for sure, Google's first employee was
Craig Silverman.