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By Mathew Dickerson
Updated September 28 2017 - 10:02am, first published 9:49am
Google has become the number one search engine in the world and delivers an individual net worth to each founder of US$45B.
Google has become the number one search engine in the world and delivers an individual net worth to each founder of US$45B.

Google’s 19th anniversay

This month witnessed the nineteenth anniversary (note anniversary not birthday) of one of the most recognisable names in the tech world. It is a company that touches 90.3 per cent of Internet connected users on a daily basis, and sits at number two on the US Stock Exchange with a market capitalisation of $647.47B but if George Bell had said “yes” to allowing the founders to continue on with their study, history would currently be telling a different story. In 1997, Larry Page arrived at Stanford University and, with fate playing a heavy hand, Sergey Brin was randomly assigned to show Page around the campus. By September 4 the following year, they had incorporated a company that would become the number one search engine in the world and deliver an individual net worth to each founder of US$45B.

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