🕷️ Crawler Inspector

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Raw Queries and Responses

1. Shard Calculation

Query:

Response:

Calculated Shard: 98 (from laksa138)

2. Crawled Status Check

Query:

curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa098.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://about.google/company-info/our-story/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://about.google/company-info/our-story/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

Response:

{"found_url":"https:\/\/about.google\/company-info\/our-story\/","crawl_time":1775897456,"first_indexed_time":1743092964,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"google,about!\/company-info\/our-story\/ s443","src_root_hash":"718086531530252498","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"How we started and where we are today - Google - About Google","meta_descriptions":["Find out where it all began. Read the history of how Google has grown since Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.\nBy some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.\nSoon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”\nOver the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things\ncolorful\ncontinues to this day.)\nEven in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the\nfirst “Doodle”\nin 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly — hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog,\nYoshka\n. Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.\nThe relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us — from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.","attrs_markdown":"[Jump to Content](https:\/\/about.google\/company-info\/our-story\/#page-content)\n\n[![Google logo](https:\/\/www.gstatic.com\/marketing-cms\/assets\/images\/f5\/d3\/a7f9db7045429cb6dc6be56bdcbe\/google-logo-about.svg)](https:\/\/about.google\/ \"Google\")\n\n[![Google logo](https:\/\/www.gstatic.com\/marketing-cms\/assets\/images\/f5\/d3\/a7f9db7045429cb6dc6be56bdcbe\/google-logo-about.svg)](https:\/\/about.google\/ \"Google\")\n\n- [About](https:\/\/about.google\/)\n- [Products](https:\/\/about.google\/products\/)\n- [Company Info](https:\/\/about.google\/company-info\/)\n- [News](https:\/\/blog.google\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=navigation%20)\n\nOur story\n\n# From the garage to the Googleplex\n\nThe Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.\n\nBy some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.\n\nSoon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”\n\nOver the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for \\$100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee \\#16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things [colorful](https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=google+office+locations&espv=2&biw=2560&bih=1253&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIv-ih3J7exwIVx0qICh3-DQ-Q) continues to this day.)\n\nEven in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the [first “Doodle”](https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/burning-man-festival) in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly — hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, [Yoshka](http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/yoshkas-weekend-amble.html). Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.\n\nThe relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us — from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.\n\n## Footer links\n### Resources\n- [Blog](https:\/\/www.blog.google\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Brand Resource Center](https:\/\/about.google\/brand-resource-center\/)\n- [Careers](https:\/\/careers.google.com\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Contact us](https:\/\/about.google\/company-info\/contact-google\/)\n- [Help Center](https:\/\/support.google.com\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link%20)\n- [Investor Relations](https:\/\/abc.xyz\/investor\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Locations](https:\/\/about.google\/company-info\/locations\/)\n- [Press resources](https:\/\/www.blog.google\/press\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n\n### Outreach and initiatives\n- [Accessibility](https:\/\/google.com\/accessibility?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Crisis Response](https:\/\/crisisresponse.google\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Google.org](https:\/\/www.google.org\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Google for Health](https:\/\/health.google\/?utm_source=about_google&utm_medium=web&utm_content=footer)\n- [Grow with Google](https:\/\/grow.google\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Learning](https:\/\/learning.google\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Public Policy](https:\/\/publicpolicy.google\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Sustainability](https:\/\/sustainability.google\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n\n### Research and technology\n- [Google AI](https:\/\/ai.google\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Google Cloud](https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Google DeepMind](https:\/\/deepmind.google\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Google for Developers](https:\/\/developers.google.com\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Google Labs](https:\/\/labs.google\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Google Research](https:\/\/research.google\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n\n### More about us\n- [Around the globe](https:\/\/about.google\/around-the-globe\/)\n- [Human rights](https:\/\/about.google\/company-info\/human-rights\/)\n- [Safety Center](https:\/\/safety.google\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n- [Supplier responsibility](https:\/\/sustainability.google\/progress\/supplier-responsibility\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Transparency Center](https:\/\/transparency.google\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Transparency Report](https:\/\/transparencyreport.google.com\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)\n\n[![Google logo in dark gray](https:\/\/www.gstatic.com\/marketing-cms\/assets\/images\/b3\/a5\/529a3d3047d18be9a5f3547ad7e3\/google-logo-footer.svg)](http:\/\/google.com\/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=global-footer \"Google\")\n\n- [Privacy](https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- [Terms](https:\/\/policies.google.com\/terms?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer)\n- Cookies management controls\n\n- [Help](https:\/\/support.google.com\/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)","attrs_readable_markdown":"The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.\n\nBy some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.\n\nSoon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”\n\nOver the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for \\$100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee \\#16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things [colorful](https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=google+office+locations&espv=2&biw=2560&bih=1253&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIv-ih3J7exwIVx0qICh3-DQ-Q) continues to this day.)\n\nEven in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the [first “Doodle”](https:\/\/www.google.com\/doodles\/burning-man-festival) in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly — hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, [Yoshka](http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2004\/06\/yoshkas-weekend-amble.html). Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.\n\nThe relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us — from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.","meta_canonical":null}

3. Robots.txt Check

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4. Spam/Ban Check

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5. Seen Status Check

ℹ️ Skipped - page is already crawled

📄

INDEXABLE

✅

CRAWLED

6 hours ago

🤖

ROBOTS ALLOWED

Page Info Filters

Filter	Status	Condition	Details
HTTP status	PASS	`download_http_code = 200`	HTTP 200
Age cutoff	PASS	`download_stamp > now() - 6 MONTH`	0 months ago
History drop	PASS	`isNull(history_drop_reason)`	No drop reason
Spam/ban	PASS	`fh_dont_index != 1 AND ml_spam_score = 0`	ml_spam_score=0
Canonical	PASS	`meta_canonical IS NULL OR = '' OR = src_unparsed`	Not set

Page Details

Property	Value
URL	https://about.google/company-info/our-story/
Last Crawled	2026-04-11 08:50:56 (6 hours ago)
First Indexed	2025-03-27 16:29:24 (1 year ago)
HTTP Status Code	200
Meta Title	How we started and where we are today - Google - About Google
Meta Description	Find out where it all began. Read the history of how Google has grown since Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998.
Meta Canonical	null
Boilerpipe Text	The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around. By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things colorful continues to this day.) Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the first “Doodle” in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly — hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, Yoshka . Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka. The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us — from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.
Markdown	[Jump to Content](https://about.google/company-info/our-story/#page-content) [![Google logo](https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/f5/d3/a7f9db7045429cb6dc6be56bdcbe/google-logo-about.svg)](https://about.google/ "Google") [![Google logo](https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/f5/d3/a7f9db7045429cb6dc6be56bdcbe/google-logo-about.svg)](https://about.google/ "Google") - [About](https://about.google/) - [Products](https://about.google/products/) - [Company Info](https://about.google/company-info/) - [News](https://blog.google/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=navigation%20) Our story # From the garage to the Googleplex The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around. By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for \$100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee \#16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things [colorful](https://www.google.com/search?q=google+office+locations&espv=2&biw=2560&bih=1253&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIv-ih3J7exwIVx0qICh3-DQ-Q) continues to this day.) Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the [first “Doodle”](https://www.google.com/doodles/burning-man-festival) in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly — hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, [Yoshka](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/yoshkas-weekend-amble.html). Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka. The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us — from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day. ## Footer links ### Resources - [Blog](https://www.blog.google/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Brand Resource Center](https://about.google/brand-resource-center/) - [Careers](https://careers.google.com/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Contact us](https://about.google/company-info/contact-google/) - [Help Center](https://support.google.com/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link%20) - [Investor Relations](https://abc.xyz/investor/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Locations](https://about.google/company-info/locations/) - [Press resources](https://www.blog.google/press/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) ### Outreach and initiatives - [Accessibility](https://google.com/accessibility?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Crisis Response](https://crisisresponse.google/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Google.org](https://www.google.org/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Google for Health](https://health.google/?utm_source=about_google&utm_medium=web&utm_content=footer) - [Grow with Google](https://grow.google/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Learning](https://learning.google/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Public Policy](https://publicpolicy.google/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Sustainability](https://sustainability.google/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) ### Research and technology - [Google AI](https://ai.google/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Google DeepMind](https://deepmind.google/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Google Labs](https://labs.google/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Google Research](https://research.google/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) ### More about us - [Around the globe](https://about.google/around-the-globe/) - [Human rights](https://about.google/company-info/human-rights/) - [Safety Center](https://safety.google/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) - [Supplier responsibility](https://sustainability.google/progress/supplier-responsibility/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Transparency Center](https://transparency.google/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Transparency Report](https://transparencyreport.google.com/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link) [![Google logo in dark gray](https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/b3/a5/529a3d3047d18be9a5f3547ad7e3/google-logo-footer.svg)](http://google.com/?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=global-footer "Google") - [Privacy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - [Terms](https://policies.google.com/terms?utm_source=about.google&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer) - Cookies management controls - [Help](https://support.google.com/?utm_source=about&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=footer-link)
Readable Markdown	The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around. By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for \$100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee \#16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things [colorful](https://www.google.com/search?q=google+office+locations&espv=2&biw=2560&bih=1253&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIv-ih3J7exwIVx0qICh3-DQ-Q) continues to this day.) Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the [first “Doodle”](https://www.google.com/doodles/burning-man-festival) in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly — hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, [Yoshka](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/yoshkas-weekend-amble.html). Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a.“The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka. The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to Gmail and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us — from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.
Shard	98 (laksa)
Root Hash	718086531530252498
Unparsed URL	google,about!/company-info/our-story/ s443