Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies. It was first designed to be separately downloaded by users, but the company later pitched the idea for a purely Web-based product to Google management, changing the method of distribution.

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. When you have eliminated the JavaScript , whatever remains must be an empty page. Enable JavaScript to see Google Maps.

Get the backstory behind Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the computer scientists who invented the ubiquitous search engine Google in the mid-1990s.

Google Maps was created in Google's Sydney office, and engineers here work on that product as well as Chrome. This office features views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, a music room, and a living wall of plants. Tokyo. Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 6-10-1 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6126 Japan

Beginning. Google has its origins in "BackRub", a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the lead programmer who wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was ...