August 27, 2010
On September 15, 1997, two Stanford PhD candidates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, registered the domain name Google.com. Originally nicknamed “BackRub”, because their new system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site, the name was changed to Google after its name was derived from the misspelling of the word “googol”, the number one [...]
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August 24, 2010
It’s hard to believe that just over five years ago the founders of YouTube registered its domain name and began work on its site. Now sitting at #3 on Alexa’s Top Sites list, YouTube today sees over 400 million visits worldwide on a monthly basis among its estimated 6 to 9 million channels. But as [...]
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