On a day like today, one of the most important cybernetic companies of the digital age was founded. In it, millions of people around the world enter daily in search of information about people, history, entertainment, art, business, news, etc. In addition, its increasingly sophisticated applications allow not only the possibility of obtaining quality information in just seconds, but also promotes interaction through social networks (Google +), posting and sharing audio and video material with excellent audio quality. playback (YouTube), make purchases remotely and much more. We are talking, of course, about Google, which celebrates its 15th anniversary, today, September 4.
Can you imagine a current student or educator who does not use “Google” to get information about any of their courses?
No way. The most popular search page on the Internet is a tool that, when used well, greatly enriches learning.
Since 1998, this website Created by Larry Page and Sergey Bryn, two Californian computer science students, Google revolutionized the world of the network of networks due to its extensive ability to gather information materials from all over the world and make them accessible and useful. Today Google turns 15 and is currently one of the largest and most ambitious corporate conglomerates in the world, with business development policies based on permanent innovation and creativity.
The term “Google” comes from mathematics. “Googol” (or “gúgol” in Spanish) was the word that Milton Sirotta, a 9-year-old boy, used in 1938 to name the number resulting from raising 10 to the hundredth power (ie 10100). To write this digit, a “1” would have to be placed followed by one hundred “0”. Little Milton was the nephew of a well-known mathematician, Professor Edward Kasner, who popularized the term "googol" in his work Mathematics and the Imagination, published in 1940.