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Google looking to future after 20 years of search 

Google celebrated its 20th birthday Monday, marking two decades in which it has grown from simply a better way to explore the internet to a search engine so woven into daily life its name has become a verb. 

The company was set to mark its 20th anniversary with an event in San Francisco devoted to the future of online search, promising a few surprise announcements. 

Larry Page and Sergey Brin were students at Stanford University -- known for its location near Silicon Valley

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The duo went beyond simply counting the number of times keywords were used, developing software that took into account factors such as relationships between webpages to help determine where they should rank in search results. 

Google was launched in September 1998 in a garage rented in the Northern California city of Menlo Park. The name is a play on the mathematical term "googol," which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. 

Google reportedly ran for a while on computer  servers at Stanford, where a version of the search had been tested. 


Google later moved its headquarters to Mountain View, where it remains. 

In August 2004, Google went public on the stock market with shares priced at $85. Shares in the multi-billion-dollar company are now trading above $1,000. 

Its early code of conduct included a now-legendary "don't be evil" clause. Its stated mission is to make the world's information available to anyone. 

The company hit a revenue mother lode with tools that target online ads based on what users reveal and let marketers pay only if people clicked on links in advertising. 

It has now launched an array of offerings including Maps, Gmail, the Chrome internet browser, and an Android mobile device operating system that is free to smartphone or tablet makers. 

Google also makes premium Pixel smartphones to showcase Android, which dominates the market with handsets made by an array of manufacturers. 

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