Google is easily the most important company on the internet right now. Even if we are not surfing the web, the website plays a very crucial part in our lives. Web searching is now associated with Google so much so that ‘google it’ refers to searching something on the web.
The most visited website is worth billions of dollars and has a global influence. But what is the story behind the website and what was the first ever Google search? Let’s find out.
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The First Ever Google Search
In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started developing a project as Stanford University PhD students. It was called BackRub because the search engine relied on backlinks to estimate the importance of websites.
The domain name of Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the first ever Google search happened in 1998. Page and Brin demonstrated the accuracy of Google compared to other search engines at that time.
According to Metro, Both were showing their work on the search software to computer scientist John Hennessy, who is hailed as the ‘godfather of Silicon Valley.’ Hennessy searched the word ‘Gerhard Casper’, who was the President of Stanford University at that time.
Google’s rival search engine AltaVista (founded in 1995) showed the result for Casper the Friendly Ghost. But Page and Brin’s search engine showed up popped links to the human being Gerhard Casper, the one they were looking for.
A Man Rejected By Google For 39 Times Gets Selected On 40th Attempt: Viral Story
A resident of San Francisco, named Tyler Cohen, revealed the story of Google’s hiring process that has shocked everyone.
Tyler kept applying to his dream job at Google while working as an Associate Manager, Strategy & Ops at DoorDash. But his application was rejected. He kept attempting continuously for three years straight. The first attempt he made was in August 2019 but his application was rejected till July 19, 2022. In 2019, he sent six applications.
In 2020, the number increased to 17. Then it went from 12 attempts in 2021 to five in 2022. The tech giant finally gave him the job offer recently. Tyler shared his experience on LinkedIn and wrote: “There’s a fine line between perseverance and insanity. I’m still trying to figure out which one I have. 39 rejections, 1 acceptance.”
His post has since gone viral with several reactions and comments. While a lot of people congratulated him, others raised questions about Google’s hiring process.
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