Google is everywhere, in all kinds of software. Show Google is the name of a giant tech company, and also the name of the most popular search engine online (Google Search). In this post Ill get back on Google, their story and origins, but also on the company products, like Google Chrome. Google: the companyOriginsGoogle was created in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They were not the first ones in the world to think about that. The company name, Google, comes from the Gogol number (10^100). EvolutionThe search engine development was fast. In 2000, Google announced they indexed more than one billion web pages Then, Google never stopped to index more pages, add new languages and new features (like the image search engine). The search engine todayGoogle is no longer giving us statistics, but we have no doubt they are in an absolute monopoly situation. The latest figures published said that something like 30,000 billion documents were indexed by Google, and they now answer to more than 3.5 billions search requests each day. Google Chrome and other products from GoogleAlphabetIn August 2015, Google created the Alphabet company, to regroup their multiples activities within a same entity.
But in reality, they didnt do this, its a bit more complicated. The Alphabet company is in fact a conglomerate, with subsidiaries, each one in a specific field. Google ChromeAs you probably understood, Google Chrome is one of this web products, created and managed by Google. Google Chrome is a web browser. You may mix both because when you start Google Chrome, you see the Google website, the search engine. Other productsGoogle is the inventor or the current owner of many other products that you probably know with different names:
Thats it for the main Google products you probably know, but they have a lot more. Google is now a more diversified company, that work not only on software.
This diversification leads to the Alphabet creation in 2015, to create distinct subsidiaries for these projects. ConclusionYou should know after the reading of this post the difference between Google and Google Chrome. |