{ "chapters": [ { "blog": "/en/posts/google-part-1/", "id": 1, "number": "CHAPTER 1", "panels": [ { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "I can't find anything in here!" } ], "caption": "Billions of pages, no catalog, no signs.", "img": "ch1-01.png", "narration": "The 1990s web — a giant messy room" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "I'm thinking about ranking the web…" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "Me too! Let's talk!" } ], "caption": "Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet for the first time.", "img": "ch1-02.png", "narration": "1995 · Stanford computer lab" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "What if we looked at who links to whom?" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "Yes! More links = more important!" } ], "caption": "Two minds collided into one key idea.", "img": "ch1-03.png", "narration": "Different ideas — but the more they talked, the better it got" }, { "bubbles": [], "caption": "They called it PageRank — ranking pages by how many link to them.", "img": "ch1-04.png", "narration": "The key insight — like the most popular kid in school" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "Blew another fuse…" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "But search is getting really good!" } ], "caption": "Servers overflowed the dorm, blowing fuses nightly.", "img": "ch1-05.png", "narration": "1996 · Stanford dorm room" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "Let's call it Google!" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "Googol — 1 followed by 100 zeros!" } ], "caption": "A name meaning \"organizing a near-infinite amount of info\".", "img": "ch1-06.png", "narration": "Originally called \"BackRub\"… not cool" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "Whoa! It actually finds what I want!" } ], "caption": "Students typed a question — the first result was the answer.", "img": "ch1-07.png", "narration": "Word spread fast on campus…" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "This is incredible!" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "$100,000! Go start the company!" } ], "caption": "The investor wrote a check to a company that didn't yet exist — Google Inc.", "img": "ch1-08.png", "narration": "1998 · A check that changed everything" } ], "title": "Two Students and a Super Big Idea" }, { "blog": "/en/posts/google-part-2/", "id": 2, "number": "CHAPTER 2", "panels": [ { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "br", "text": "Servers cost a fortune… what do we do?" } ], "caption": "Every search cost money — Google hadn't found how to earn yet.", "img": "ch2-01.png", "narration": "Early 2000s · Search was huge… but not making money" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "What if ads matched what you're searching for?" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "Then it's not annoying — it's helpful!" } ], "caption": "Relevant small ads — this idea made Google one of the most profitable companies ever.", "img": "ch2-02.png", "narration": "A smart idea — ads that are actually useful" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "1 GB for free?!" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "250× the storage!" } ], "caption": "Too much space to believe — but it was real.", "img": "ch2-03.png", "narration": "April 1, 2004 · Gmail launches" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "Wow! I can see the whole world!" } ], "caption": "Zoom, pan, drag — a magic window to the world.", "img": "ch2-04.png", "narration": "2005 · Google Maps" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "What's on top of that car?" } ], "caption": "Rooftop cameras mapped the world — walk Paris from your room.", "img": "ch2-05.png", "narration": "2007 · Street View cars hit the road" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "br", "text": "$1.6 billion! Is this the right call?" } ], "caption": "Turns out — YouTube became the world's second-biggest search engine.", "img": "ch2-06.png", "narration": "2006 · Acquired YouTube" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "Free and open! Anyone can build phones!" } ], "caption": "Today over 3 billion devices run Android.", "img": "ch2-07.png", "narration": "2008 · Android opens the phone world" }, { "bubbles": [], "caption": "Google was no longer just search — it was everywhere.", "img": "ch2-08.png", "narration": "Search, mail, maps, videos, phones…" } ], "title": "Reinventing Mail, Maps, Videos, and Phones" }, { "blog": "/en/posts/google-part-3/", "id": 3, "number": "CHAPTER 3", "panels": [ { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "What if computers didn't just find answers…" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "…but really understood them?" } ], "caption": "Organizing info was just step one — the real goal was smart machines.", "img": "ch3-01.png", "narration": "Google's next dream — bigger than search" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "br", "text": "A computer can't win this… right?" } ], "caption": "Go has more moves than atoms in the universe. AlphaGo won 4 of 5.", "img": "ch3-02.png", "narration": "2016 · AlphaGo vs. the Go world champion" }, { "bubbles": [], "caption": "Almost every AI today stands on this Google invention.", "img": "ch3-03.png", "narration": "2017 · Transformer — computers finally understand sentences" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "How do I solve this math problem?" }, { "pos": "br", "text": "Let me walk you through it step by step!" } ], "caption": "Like a know-it-all classmate — not just finds, but teaches.", "img": "ch3-04.png", "narration": "2023 · Gemini arrives" }, { "bubbles": [], "caption": "Photos, writing, captions, translation — AI helps everywhere.", "img": "ch3-05.png", "narration": "AI quietly enters every home" }, { "bubbles": [ { "pos": "bl", "text": "The car drives itself! I can relax…" } ], "caption": "Waymo has driven 32 million km — 40 round-trips to the moon.", "img": "ch3-06.png", "narration": "Waymo · Cars that drive themselves" }, { "bubbles": [], "caption": "Google was one part — plus DeepMind, Waymo, Verily, and more.", "img": "ch3-07.png", "narration": "2015 · Google became Alphabet" }, { "bubbles": [], "caption": "Two students in a dorm changed how humanity finds info and thinks.", "img": "ch3-08.png", "narration": "From \"finding answers\" to \"understanding the world\"" } ], "title": "From Beating the World Champion to Self-Driving Cars" } ], "cover": "https://questdad.com/comics/google/cover.png", "generated_at": "2026-05-05T12:25:30Z", "lang": "en", "panelsBasePath": "https://questdad.com/comics/google/panels", "slug": "google", "subtitle": "Two students' idea became the company that organized the world", "title": "Google", "version": 1 }