Business Chief US+CAN Magazine August 2020 | Page 117

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Google

US $ 167.7bn

In 1995 , co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin – at Stanford University – built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web , giving it the name Backrub . Soon after ‘ Backrub ’ was renamed Google – a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros . Today , Google ’ s mission remains the same as it did in 1995 , “ to organise the world ’ s information and make it universally accessible and useful .”
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