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[Dooga]

Searching on http://www.archive.org, I found some of Google's amazing history, where Larry and Sierry were still low budget, and stanford students. Even Google had to rely on Yahoo's "Yahoo Group" service, for the "Google Friends" newsletter.

Look at Google's old newsgroup here : http://groups.yahoo....google-friends/

It's hard to believe that even Google had to go through the period of "small and little".

And here's Google's very first newsletter (yes when Google didn't own a domain, and was using "google.stanford.edu"

http://www.google.co...ds/apr1998.html (Google archived their newsletters in their own site, so we don't actually know if they changed anything or not...)

[Tetraca]

I see they're site didn't look as nice and simple as it does now. It looked pretty terrible in the beginning. Of course, companies like lycos and infoseek are now reeling with google being discovered.

[heavensounds]

Very nice info you found there! I heard once that google was made by two students and was very low-budghet at the beginning. I think that this is the reason for its simplicity and as far as i am concerned, the best business strategy on internet! They really know what they are doing, simple yet effective!

greetz

[Dagoth Nereviar]

Although people have probably mentioned this...

I think they started out as just two college students, didn't they? Lucky SOBs

[Johnny]

Dagoth Nereviar, on Jun 29 2006, 03:16 PM, said:

Although people have probably mentioned this...

I think they started out as just two college students, didn't they? Lucky SOBs

Dooga said in the first post:

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where Larry and Sierry were still low budget, and stanford students

But yeah, that's pretty cool. Makes me want to go e-start some e-cool e-site. It'd be really e-rad.

[siotoxin]

And those two guys were the leaders of it until they hired some other other guy to also lead with them.



Those are the two first guys. There was an itnerview with them in some magazine, TIME, I think...

Edited by siotoxin, 29 June 2006 - 11:36 PM.

[savge17]

Thats real funny to hear, but it doesent suprise me... all companies start small then grow larger and larger... or instead they just die. Google is a great company, and the inventors are really smart for comming up with such a great search engine, nothing compares to google.com and thats why they arent so poor anymore.

[electron]

But till where i remember and read about them was that Suns Chairman was impressed by their IDEA of SEARCH on the WEB and gave them $ 1 million with the help of which they started Google Inc.

And today they favour Sun Inc. so much due to that.

It is evident enough.

[Florisjuh]

Hahaha, yes indeed, even a company with so much power on the internet as Google has nowadays, started off from nowhere like all of us do. It's good diving pack in history, and see how much the internet has changed in the last few years.

[FLaKes]

Is awesome how some companies started way back when they were poor. It sort of motivates me into giving it a shot and build a business, and work on it to grow little by little until it becomes a huge moster. Its not only about having a great idea, its about taking the first step and do whatever it takes to put the first building block of the idea. Because many people never get past the idea.