Infographic 2
The Entire History of Google
Reed Forrest, 8th Grade
Drakes Creek Middle School
Infographic
When I was playing a video game, I was thinking about what I should do for STLP. I noticed how no one had done the infographic section so I chose to do an infographic. However, I didn’t know what to make it about. I chose Google because not only did I have plenty of information about it but I could find their history on their own website. I chose to research and make an infographic about the history of Google.
I was deciding between Google Slides and Canva, but I decided to go with Canva because of it’s great templates.
I opened up a Canva template and didn’t delete anything. I modified the title to say, “The Entire History of Google”. In the text box below the title, I needed to find a website to start because I had no clue how to begin. I decided to go to Google’s official website and I found that they have an official website dedicated to their story. I kept the color black to make sure that the color doesn’t blend in with the background too much. I kept the title the color of the background of the actual infographic because there was a green box behind it. This made it easy and unique to see. I made the letters bold and the largest of all of the headings. After learning about how the original founders even started making Google, I began typing. After I finished the text, I replaced the image that was there by default.
I started working on the other sections of the infographic, repeating the past few steps. There was a new heading that I had to title. After a bit of thinking, I decided to choose the very original title, “Nothing to Something”. The second heading, I titled, “The Poor Garage”, which tells you how they made and ran the search engine while in a garage. To fit the information and heading, I added a cartoon garage next to it. The GooglePlex was next. However, I needed a new website to get my information on since the Google History website didn’t tell me much about it. I went with TimesofIndia. I figured out that in 2003, the Silicon facility was leased to Google for 319 million dollars. In continuation the interiors were finishing its redesigning in 2005. Which led to the complete purchase of that section of the building in 2006.
I thought I would have finished but I still wanted to get two more sections in the infographic. I found on the same websites that after selling stocks, the owners, (Brin and Page) controlled 14% of all of Google’s shares and 56% of all of the stockholders voting power.
Now I wanted to throw in some statistics. I ended up going to a website I used before, broadbandsearch. It had statistics on the market cap of Google from 2015 to 2022. It showed that the Market cap in 2015 was 528 billion dollars. However, in 2022, it was 1.751 trillion dollars. With it’s peak the previous year at 1.917 trillion dollars.
I learned the amount of websites there actually are for anything you want to do. From the smallest details to the largest search engine on Earth.
I organized my infographic by chronological order from top to bottom. I chose the colors for the text because the google image I found had the colors of Google (blue, red, yellow, and green) I colored them based off of those colors because they matched what the infographic was about. I left the headings and sources a generic color to make it match the already set heading background.