Google Birthday - Long Live the Big G!

Our dear old Google turns 12 today. Here's wishing Big G a very happy birthday with best wishes from the whole Buzzle team. You have revolutionized the way we look at our world and communicate. Life on the web without Google seems almost impossible today. What would we do without Big G by our side? You made the web more accessible and changed the very way information travels around the world. You brought out the truly global face of the world wide web and integrated various knowledge streams, making them easily accessible to any netizen. Thank you!

Since its incorporation as a company on 27th September, 1998, Google, which started out as a pure search engine service, has grown from strength to strength over the years to become the Internet behemoth, that it is today with an objective to organize and make the whole world's knowledge database accessible online. It has attained all this even before reaching teenage!

With the recent introduction of 'Google Instant' and personalized web history search, the search engine giant continues with innovations to provide more accurate and faster search results for users. Google has provided impetus to e-commerce and has helped businesses all around the world to reach a global customer base through its advertising programs (Google AdSense & Google AdWords). What began as an academic research project, Google has grown into an Internet giant with revenues exceeding 23 billion dollars!

Just consider this. While processing about 10¹⁵ bytes of data every day, Google has more than 1 million servers working world wide to deliver fast and accurate results to users. What makes Google search engine the best web search tool ever, is its continuously evolving algorithm and an unrivaled server capacity that can handle gargantuan processing loads. In a day's work, Google handles over a billion search requests from all over the world. Google's unique and much acclaimed search algorithm continues to evolve with time to offer better and more relevant search results to users. With competition growing in the form of Microsoft's Bing and many other search engines, Google is readying itself for a good fight ahead.

With Google Chromium OS and Android, Google is making a foray into the new platforms that are evolving in the form of netbooks and smart phones.

The unique work culture and motto of "Don't be Evil" sets Google apart from most big businesses. Employees are given freedom to innovate and work on their own projects. Their experimental projects are on display in Google labs. Not surprisingly, Google is voted as the best place to work in the world.

One of the reasons why Google as a company has been growing is their inherent openness to new ideas and innovation. What better compliment could Google get other than 'to Google' being included in the Oxford Dictionary as a verb. They have transcended the very concept of web search and taken it to a new level. You don't search on the web, you Google! Here's wishing Google a bright future ahead. Happy Birthday, Google!