Google, at the forefront of the Internet

The history of the Google locomotive began in1995, when Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two Stanford University students, together began to develop a powerfulalgorithm for information searchin large databases. The innovation of its search engine was that it ordered pages with similar content according to the number of links pointing to them. That is, the more links a page had, the higher it was in the list of results. After rejecting several offers to purchase their technology, they chose to create theirown companywith money from friends, family and some investors, Google Inc. The name comes from a play on words with the term“googol”, coined by Milton Sirotta to refer to the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeros.

After much effort, on September 7, 1998, Brin and Page showed the world the first version of Google in their makeshift garage offices in Menlo Park, California. Since then they have grown developing a wide range ofapplications and services. These are themain stars of the Google Universe:

Thegoogle search engine(www.google.com) is its main application. It consists of a keyword search system. It is actually a huge database that automatically incorporates web pages throughbots Ospiders they are constantly crawling the entire web.

Gmail(mail.google.com) is a free POP3 and IMAP email service with a storage capacity of more than 7 Gigabytes.

Google Docs(docs.google.com) is used to store and manage text documents and spreadsheets directly from the Internet, without the need for an external program.

Blogger(www.blogger.com) is a tool to create and publish a blog in a simple way, which accepts its own server (Blogspot) or the server specified by the user for hosting the blogs.

Google Talk(www.google.com/talk/intl/es/) is the Jabber protocol instant messaging and VoIP client program developed by Google, which works under Windows systems.

Google Earth(earth.google.com) is an online world map that allows you to view 3D images of our planet, combining satellite photos, maps and data from the Google search engine.

Google Mars(mars.google.com) allows you to travel to Mars in a virtual way, with the possibility of visiting the canyons, channels, prominent regions, mountains and mountains of the red planet, such as the well-known Mount Olympus, 27 kilometers high.

Google Moon(moon.google.com) was created on July 20, 2005 to coincide with the 36th anniversary of the moon landing with NASA images of lunar geography.

Google Sky (sky.google.com) combines satellite and telescope photos with Google’s powerful search engine to navigate between stars, planets and nebulae, tracking their movements in time and space.

Google Wave(wave.google.com) is an online tool that allows users to communicate and collaborate in real time, designed tounite the services of e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networkss.

Google Chrome(www.google.com/chrome) is Google’s own browser, which boasts running applications and web pages at high speed.

Google Books(books.google.com) is Google’s most controversial app. It pursues the digitization of a large part of the knowledge that is still on paper (mainly books). However, its creators claim that it “scrupulously respects the ‘copyright’ of the works and provides limited access to them.”

Google SketchUp(sketchup.google.com) is a 3D modeling and design program geared towards architecture, video game and film development, and civil engineering. The buildings created with this program can be placed on the images ofGoogle Earth.

Google Health(www.google.com/health) is a service to maintain our medical history on the Internet and to be able to access it at any time and from any corner of the world. calculates the percentage of flu patients from the searches. “When we have symptoms of a disease we go to the internet, that’s why they are relevant searches,” says the head of Google. And he adds that registering it can be useful at the health level and as a prevention tool.