Innovations from Google Today, Google is one of the most well-known companies in the world, but like most Internet startups, its beginnings are humble. Google originally began as a research project by two doctoral students at Stanford University. students. Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched the Stanford Digital Library Project in 1996 to develop an integrated online information library. (Hamen 7) Early search engines were difficult to use because they only listed results based on the number of times the search term appeared on the website. Page and Brin wanted to create a search engine that was more human-like. So in 1996, the couple left Stanford and started Google Inc. in a garage in Menlo Park, California. (Gilbert 14) In 2001, Google received a patent for PageRank. PageRank was a computer program that ranked each search result based on the number of times it was linked to by other relevant websites. This method was more similar to the subjective idea of ​​a person's importance and therefore returned better search results. (Levy, great thinker) Thanks to PageRank, Google's search engine worked more intuitively than other search engines on the market. PC Magazine reported that Google "has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results" and recognized it as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Websites of 1998. Today, the search engine of Google is used by 70% of Internet users worldwide. . (Sutherland 4) Google advances technology by innovating in many business and technology sectors, such as advertising, the development of mobile telephony, the provision of Internet and television services, and also making advancements in automobile technology . After creating a better way to search the web, it took Google...... middle of paper...... Founders. ABDO Publishing Company, 2011. Book. International Data Corporation. "Press release." November 1, 2012. Web. Levy, Steven. “Great thinker.” Wired Magazine February 2013: 68-75. Periodic.-. "Googlenomics". Wired Magazine June 2009: 109-115. Periodical.Luce, Edward. “Corporate nexus ties US to slow Internet.” FINANCIAL TIMES February 24, 2013. Web.Miller, ClaireE Cain and Nick Bilton. "Google's laboratory of wildest dreams." The New York Times, November 13, 2011. Web. Roth, Daniel. "'Google's Open Source Android OS Will Unleash the Wireless Web.'" Wired Magazine June 2008. Web.Sebastian, Thrun. Ted Talk: Google's driverless car. TED Talks, LLC, 2011. Web. Sutherland, Adam. The story of Google: the high-tech business. The Rosen Publishing Group, 2012. Book. Vanderbilt, Tom. “Let the robot drive.” Wired Magazine February 2012: 84-95, 124. Periodical.