In 1995, two Stanford university students, Larry page and Sergey Brin, created a search engine called Backrub that used links to determine the importance of individual’s webpage. In 1998, the name was changed to Google and was incorporated on the 4th of September 1998. The owners named changed the name to Google because of the play on word “googol” which was the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Therefore Google inc, was born and changed the way we find information on the world wide web.
Since its founding in 1998, Google has been firmly involved to active philanthropy and to addressing the global challenges of climate change, education and poverty alleviation. Since 2006, Google also started up a serious of social initiatives and programs such as; China social innovation cup for college students, supporting earthquake relief efforts, Google grants, and other charitable endeavors.
One program that has been a large part of Google’s sustainability programs is, “Google’s China Social innovation cup for college students” which is a nationwide competition that aims to attract China’s youth to become individuals of the social change. By gathering project ideas from college students, Google was able to fund the college student’s ideas to help address social issues happening around the globe. The social issues addressed have included education, poverty alleviation, disability aid, healthcare, women and children, arts and culture, and community development. Though project evaluation, mentorship and funding, Google hopes to play a huge role in driving true social responsibility in China and other surrounding countries.
Another social responsibility program that Google created was the “supporting earthquake relief efforts”. In early September 2008, Google funded the construction of 15 Google quake relief hope schools in the western parts of china. Helping