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8 September 2003 It's High Five for Google Search engine Google turns five this week and is celebrating by riding high on a wave of worldwide popularity and financial success. The "little engine that could" has come a long way from the Californian garage it started life in on 7 September 1998. According to founders Stanford University PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google was handling around 10,000 queries per day at that time. Consider now that Google deals with more than 200 million queries per day, indexes 3.3 billion web pages and employs 1,000 people worldwide and you start to understand the phenomenal growth this young firm has experienced.
Even Google's massive success hasn't caused the engine's growth to slow down. A peek into Google Labs reveals that the Google team is doing anything but resting on their laurels. They are also quick to dispel the critics that claim Google is too powerful. As co-founder Sergey Brin commented in an interview during the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose: "I think people tend to exaggerate in both directions Google's significance," he said. "Some says Google is God others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines, unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine. People come to Google because they choose to." Happy birthday Google.
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