Google turns 26: the company that changed the way we browse the internet

Google Today, September 27, it celebrates its 26th anniversary of existence, becoming one of the most influential technology companies in the world.

The tech titan was born from a chance meeting between two computer science students in 1997, when Sergey Brin, a Stanford University graduate student, was randomly assigned to show around campus to Larry Page, who was considering the school. graduate at that time.

By the following year, the two Google co-founders were building a search engine together in their bedrooms and developing their first prototype. A year later, on September 27, 1998, Google Inc. was officially born.

In the 26 years since then, the company has undergone enormous growth and transformations, which led to the creation of Alphabet Inc., a conglomerate in charge of managing the various services they have developed that vary from the most popular search engine in the world, to most used streaming service with YouTube, the most used browser with Chrome and the popular Android operating system.

Likewise, Google and Alphabet have also expanded into important areas such as cloud computing, hardware and artificial intelligence, which has put them in competition with other giants in the field such as Apple and Microsoft.

Currently Sergey Brin and Larry Page are retired from the daily activities of the company they founded 26 years ago, but the influence of their meeting is still felt a quarter of a century later by millions of people, who use their services to search for information, entertain and connect with others.