The founders of Google, the leading Internet search engine, state that their mission is to organize the
worlds
information. Every Day, their websites handles hundreds of millions of queries for information. In seconds, it can locate specific phrases and terms on four billion Web pages by using more than 15,000 connected computers. Sergey Brin and Larry Page launched Google in 1998 in a friend''s garage. The name is derived from "googol," which is the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zero. Nearly 4,200 employees work for the Mountain Vie, Californi, corporation world wide.