1. The Birth of Google: The PageRank Algorithm

Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

  graph TD
    A["Website A"] --> B["Website B"]
    C["Website C"] --> B
    D["Website D"] --> A
    B --> E["Website E"]

2. Establishing the Advertising Model (AdWords)

The pillar of Google’s revenue became the search-linked advertising “AdWords” (now Google Ads).

3. Mobile and Android

Acquired Android Inc. in 2005 and deployed it as an open-source mobile OS.

4. Towards an AI-First Company

Under CEO Sundar Pichai, the company shifted from “Mobile-First” to “AI-First”. The Transformer model paper (2017) became the foundation of the modern generative AI revolution, including ChatGPT.