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279 Rapid Growth Google was doing well, very well, and in the space of six months their service had mushroomed by fifty fold, with now over 500,000 searches being done daily. The corporation moved home to a larger of- fice along University Avenue in Palo Alto, and increased staff numbers to eight. They had their first commercial sign ups with Red Hat, and at- tracted $25 million from both of the normally competing venture capi- tal firms Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Buyers. Still growing fast in personnel and performance, Google again moved to larger premises where they remain today in Mountain View, California, in a building with the nickname, Googleplex. AOL/Netscape now joined the list of those appreciating what Google could do, as they chose this search engine ahead of all others to provide its users with the tools for web searching. By now Google searches were topping 3 mil- lion per day. From Beta to Alpha In September 1999, the beta label came off from their website, as the home site was officially launched. Their client list became more international as both Virgilio in Italy and Virgin Net in the United Kingdom opted for Google. This year was to bring more good news and recognition yet, as PC Magazine awarded Google a Technical Excel- lence Award for Innovation in Web Application Development. The name also appeared in many `best lists’ and recommenda- tions from various sources which included the highly thought of, Time Magazine’s 1999 Top Ten Best Cybertech list. The new millennium brought more good news for Google as Ya- hoo! joined the client list, but success was not going to the heads of the now around sixty folks employed at Google. Brin and Page had long cultivated an informal atmosphere among the employees, and remained true to this relaxed state. Impromptu games of roller-hockey would break out in the car park and the offices were kept free of dividing