Yes, Google is 25 today and those who read me regularly will surely be surprised and/or imagine the titanic effort I had to make to keep this message from saying “It feels like a lie” or “How time flies” but one day you will be a child coming from schools are thinking about snack time, and suddenly you’re measuring the passage of time for anything in decades. A moment ago, without going any further, I remembered that the first virus in Spain happened 30 years ago.

I was more mentally prepared for this birthday, Google, I must say since then Less than a week ago, we commemorated his two decades since his official arrival in Spaina move that occurred when it became evident that Google was not just an Internet search engine, but that it was aiming (though at the time how far it was impossible to imagine) much higher, and that the search engine would be just one of its, over time, countless successes.

We all know what Google is these days, but the time is still right (aren’t birthdays always right?) to navigate back and remember the origin of which today is undoubtedly one of the largest and most influential technology companies. A technology that started as a project of two young people, then graduate students, who intended to create a more efficient information search engine on the Internet to manage huge volumes of information, improving the directory-based search engine model at the time.

This ability to manage large volumes of information gave birth to the name Google, which, as these two people, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have said on occasion, It comes from the mathematical expression googol, which denotes 10 to the power of 100.. This name replaced the one originally intended for the search engine, which was BackRub. On this day, September 27, but in 1998, Google began to provide a service with a structure consisting of a cabinet with approximately 80 servers.

Without major marketing campaigns, mainly thanks to the spread given to it by users who tried it and were excited about its operation, The search engine quickly began to rise to positions among the preferences of userswhich soon made it the most used search engine, displacing services like Yahoo!, WebCrawler, Altavista, and many others that we had been using regularly until then.

Many of us have asked ourselves on more than one occasion, What would happen if Yahoo! would accept Brin and Page’s offer to become in 1998, with a search technology they designed, or one also designed in 2002, both of which were rejected by the then-Internet giant. Now, given their evolution, it seems clear that they would not be able to reproduce the countless history of success (which, of course, also has its shadows) that made Google the giant and legacy that it is today.

To celebrate, Google Spain published the 25 numbers that define the company’s 25-year history, a very interesting compilation that you can find here.