How big is Google?

Ever wonder, what services/company´s belong to Google? Meet the boss is maintaining a map with all the aquisitions including year and type of company.

The history of Google is also described:

Back in January 1996 Google began as a research project for Larry Page, a PHD student at Stanford, who was working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). It was his aim “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.” In his search for a dissertation theme, Page considered exploring the mathematical properties of the web, understanding its link structure as huge graph. His supervisor at the time, Terry Winograd encouraged him to pick up this idea, and Page was later quoted as saying this was “the best advice I ever got.” [...]

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