The Google Story Turns 16 Today :

1. Google turned  sixteen  today  ( 27th September )it celebrates 16 years of " being the search giant that continues maintain 82% search engine share apart from having snatched the Mobile OS market by it Android Platform that currently has more than 50% of global share.Google registered their domain name today
2. Google began in March 1998 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford University.Google was born when during their dissertation theme as  Larry Page and Sergie brin started exploring  the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph.In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub",
3. Together while working for their project they discovered that each page from a web site a a back link of another link. And these links are one of the foundations on which a web page is considered how valuable these pages are. They convert the backlink data that it gathered for a given web page into a measure of importance, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm.
4. The first patent filed under the name "Google Inc." was filed on August 31, 1999. Today Google is worth $16billion  and  has almost a monopoly in the US market with 100billion searches monthy . The company has moved beyond the search engine and has become one of the most innovative companies in the world, inventing Android phones, Google Glass, and driverless cars. The rest as they say is History.