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Google: the Online Empire

Google is a word that all the users of the internet know. It is the most popular search site, overtaking previous leader Yahoo. But the empire of Google is still growing. It continuously grows, buying more divisions (such as youtube and blogger) and creating new "googleable" items, such as maps, videos, news, customized home pages, phones, internet browsers, computer OSes, etc... This all started from a simple search site made in 1998 in a garage in Mencio Park, California. The change Google has brought to the world is nothing more than a huge step towards a more technologically led future. People use google to find answers for anything; even the denizens of the internet have turned the word google into a verb by saying, "google it" whenever someone asks about something and no one really feels like answering. There is even a website called www.lmgtfy.com (let me google that for you) allowing you to show them exactly how to google. A quick survey of computer users in KIS alone will show that almost everyone uses google on a daily basis, from looking at basic facts, to finding pictures, to just looking up the most random stuff in the world, like how many hits your name gets on the internet. (Kevin G Lee gets **7,490,000 hits.**) How did such a simple idea, of making another search site get so big, so popular, and so mainstream? Well... thats really not covered in this story. But however it may gotten this popular, one thing is for certain. Google has made an impact in the world, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down just yet.