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How Much Is YouTube Worth?
YouTube’s Early Days and Acquisition by Google YouTube was founded in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The idea for YouTube came from their difficulty in finding videos of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction. They noticed a gap in the market for an online video-sharing platform, and thus, YouTube was…
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How Old is Google?
The Founding of Google Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Initially, the search engine was named “Backrub,” but in 1997, the name was changed to “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” which represents the number one followed by 100 zeros. The founders chose this name to…
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