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How do places like google get themselves on the web?

Ok, so when you want to make a website you go and find someone to host you. But how do places like google and yahoo get themselves on the web so that anyone can acess them? Do they use a hosting person too? Feel free to be a technical as you want- I own a dictionary. thank you for answering but how does google get itself up there- what do they do so that they are on the web. Who do they pay?

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1. google hosts themselves, I think
2. they likely bought a domain initially and had it hosted by another company until they became more successful.
3. A website is a series of files located on a computer, that your browser opens in a way that is consistent. The computer is assigned an Internet Protocol address which allows other computers to find it. Recognising that remembering an IP address is ludicrously difficult, websites are registered with a DNS system, which assigns a domain to the IP address (eg google.com). Your browser then searches for the address you typed with a DNS system, then locates the IP address of the computer, and opens the files as a website. Providing you register with DNS server, anyone could host a website, in theory. DNS servers normally take around 24 hours to share information with each other following any changes. Additional Information: Major internet companies like Google host their own website and domain name, so they do not pay anyone for the service.
4. google headquarters i think its a federal goverment, its a massive place with thousands of google search engines in it
5. They have their own servers, so they don't have to worry about paying monthly for them all. They pay for their data centers containing their servers. They buy a domain through someone, and they point it to their servers. So they pay a domain registrar (they probably registered themselves, because ICANN allowed them ... but don't quote me on that one), and for their data centers (and for their servers, initially).