palo Alto, five months they garage and moved into offices in engine was barely a mile from the Stanford campus. By now, their search handling 100.000 queries a day, all this through word of mouth. emails and instant messages. But they were again running out of money, despite the now 1$ million in funding that they had collected from Bechtolsheim and other early investors, and through borrowing on their credit cards. But it was clear that with upward of 500,000 searches per day toward the end of the year, they needed much more money. in their boomtown climate of Silicon Valley in early 1999, a public stock offering was one option, even though Google had no profits. But Brin and Page resisted this option, not wanting to reveal their trade secrets and lose some control.