Google marked its 10th anniversary earlier this month and what a decade it has been for them. Google was launched on September 7th 1998 to little fanfare. At the time most people didn’t see the benefit of a new search engine. Everyone had Yahoo and as far as anyone was concerned that was enough. But it didn’t take long for the world to warm to the young search engine.
The simplicity of the search engine combined with the relevance of its returns gave it a foot up above many of its competitors. In December of its first PC Magazine marked their success by naming Google Top Search Engine in their Top 100 websites of 1998. From there Google has gone on to become partnered with many of the largest and most powerful companies in business and entertainment. They have branched out to include email, news services, finance tools, advanced mapping software, and have all but cornered the market on paid web advertising. On July 25th 2008 also made its biggest search engine announcement to date, they were now indexing over 1 trillion unique URLS. The amount of data coursing through their servers had reached a truly remarkable phase.
Today almost all aspects of business are now influenced by the search engine giant in some way. As the number one search engine in America achieving a high ranking in Google is a top priority for any business that wishes to capitalize on the internet. In light of that Search Engine Optimization has grown from small intrigue to a necessity. With 71% of consumers using Google, everyone wants to make sure their website plays nice with the companies search algorithms.
With new innovation created every day and new branches opening around the world Google looks to continue spending its time in the spotlight. With everything they have brought to the stage so far I couldn’t be happier for them.
- Richard Keene
IT Computer Support of New York
Design and Optimization Department
