number 1 followed by one hundred zeros (Google History, 2014).
To start off their new company, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000, and now the company is worth almost $395 billion (Solomon, 2014). In September of 1998, Larry and Sergey set up a new workplace in a garage in California, which was the beginnings of the Google empireis where the Google empire began. A couple of months later in December, Google was featured in “PC Magazine” and they commented on how Googleand endorsed as having "has aan uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results." Google was ranked in the top 100 Web Sites for 1998. During April 2000 Google launched MentalPlex, which was a program that predicted search results. , and It managed to received the Webby Award in May of the that same year. The company went initially public had its initial public offering in August 19, 2004, offering 19,605,052 shares of class A common stock (Google , 2014).
In May of 2000, Google launched internationally in 10 different countries. Today, their domains extend across over 150 different countries. Also in May, they released their first ‘Google doodle.’ It was a little alien and it did not represent or celebrate anything like it does now (GoogleGoogle Doodle, 2014). Google doodles currently represent
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For example, YouTube is free. , and Peopleconsumers use YouTube because it is freeof its cost efficiency and because the quality surpasses that of competitors. and far better than its competitors. The more people that use YouTube, the more the advertising market for YouTube expands. Google's operation strategy centers around producing products and services that are free or very cheap to use and are of far better quality than their competitors. In this way all their products help to expand their baseline advertising market (TechFaktor,