Google And The History Of Internet Search

It seems that Google has been around forever, as if there was never a time when the Internet had no search or when people relied on other search engines. The word Google, a brand name has become so popular it's now a verb and not many companies can say that !

In this documentary presented by John Heilemann we see the history not only of Google but the original search engines such as Excite and Yahoo. How Google managed to overtake all it's competitors, how they funded the start up search engine, the secret behind the algorithm created by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and how Google could have been bought out for what compared to today's value was cents.