On September 4th, 1998, in Menlo Park, California, two PhD students came together and incorporated what would become the largest influencer on global marketing in recent history. With what began as a pet project, the founders truly believed that they could categorize, index and open up the unruly World Wide Web to the masses. Their brainchild was born and affectionately christened as Google, after the immense amount of information available on the web and the appropriately mind-blowingly large number 10^100, or “googol.”
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