Tuesday marks 24 years since Google has been created. Cheddar News breaks down how the search engine-turned-tech giant has dominated the landscape in under a quarter century.

Looking Back on 24 Years of Google

Welcome back to Cheddar News is closing bell. Everyone, Let's take a look at our stock of the day. Today we're looking at google, believe it or not, the tech giant turning 24 years old today, but I wasn't always the, the myth of course that it is now. The idea of google started in the mid 19 nineties when stanford students and google co founders Larry page and Sergey brin came up with the idea of curating a search engine that could link to sites all over the internet. We'll gain momentum and caught the eye of investors who helped propel it to a full launch in September of 1998 when Google was then unveiled in 1998, yahoo and Ash Jeeves dominated the online search market. The Google's algorithm for searches quickly gained the favor of users. It launched its image search in 2001 in response to users search for pictures of Jennifer Lopez's dress at the Grammy Awards, you might remember. And then in 2004, the company had its I. P. O. Going public at $85 a share, raising nearly $2 billion in the process. Well over the years, it started to expand its reach, becoming more of a tech company than a simple search engine and scooping up dozens of small startups per year. In 2006 it bought popular video sharing platform. Youtube for a dollar. Excuse me, $1.7 billion immediately bringing it into the online video revolution that is still happening today in 2008. Google releasing the android os, the user friendly interface helping propel it to what it is today, the most popular operating system in the world And in 2011, Google becoming the first company ever to reach a billion monthly unique visitors. YouTube was a big part of that. It turns out in the later years it continued to evolve, restructuring his alphabet, inc in August of 2015 and the next year the company unveiled its first Google Pixel phone was one of the best rated cameras on the market. It was a slow start but the Google Pixel has since gotten major upgrades. It's seen huge sales growth currently accounting for 2% of the North American market share for smartphones and today Google turning 24 years old almost unrecognizable to the company that started as just a few of the big events in Google's history. But of course there were others that made it into the company that it is today. Google maps being one that quickly overtook a map Quest as the top destination for directions and online maps and then Google Drive, which has become almost as important as breathing for students, businesses and artists alike. Google Chrome. Now the world's leading Internet browser with a global market share of 65% and many others will Google's also face multiple antitrust lawsuits in recent years but claims the reason is so popular that its products are superior to those of its competitors. So we are sure Google will continue to evolve in the coming years in the real world, and the virtual world, augmented reality glasses can automatically translate speech in real time. And it recently announced plans for a new virtual reality has set as tech giants like Meta and Apple start to shift over to the metaverse. Well, let's take a look back at what the stock has done in the past five years, alphabet shares of 89%.