As what I’m about to write seems critical of Google, I feel like David going against Goliath and I’m not going to win. How can I possibly say anything wrong about Google- they’re champions of the Web, right? Is it just me or is there anyone else out there that’s getting an uneasy feeling about Google? The company is starting to scare me with their size and what’s going on. Are they completely taking over the Web? Starting from the beginning, it must be said they’ve done some astonishing things. Google started quite modestly in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. Two years later, they incorporated and PC magazine dubbed Google the ‘search engine of choice’ in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998. In 2003, they acquired Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger, and in 2004 they went public with an IPO opening price per share of $85 (it is now trading at over $520). Not bad for the first 6 years.
