Google was born on September 7,1998 in a garage. It is now six years
old.

The Guardian, London, in a leader on Tuesday, September 9,2003, inter
alia, noted:

It started on September 7 1998 - yes, in a garage - when there were
already nearly a hundred rival search engines. It grew by word of
mouth with virtually no advertising and has seen off rivals to become
the dominant engine, with 200 million searches a day and over 3
billion web pages indexed. Google is not only one of the wonders of
the web, but has also become both a noun and a verb. Oh, and it makes
good profits without charging ordinary users.

Read the full leader at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1038182,00.html

And, of course, you can check Google's official timeline, which gives
its history up to March-April 2004, at
http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline.html

Dr D.C.Misra
September 10, 2004