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Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford
Google files for incorporation in California. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company’s name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim’s check.
Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn’t exist yet – a company called Google Inc. August 4 Search engine analyst Danny Sullivan’s first report on Google, “Counting Clicks and Looking at Links,” notes “I think many people will be pleased” with their Google search results.
Back rub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year – eventually taking up too much bandwidth.
Febuary 1996
Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google – a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. . . ....The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web
15 September 1997
now Stanford computer science grad students, they begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub
January 1996
4 September 1998
August 1998
Our first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board. The release quotes Moritz describing “Googlers” as “people who use Google.”
7 June 1999
The most frequent queries on Google.com for 1999 were: pokemon apollo slashdot y2k trenchcoat mafia hurricane floyd kosovo DeCSS MIT University star wars
December 1999
The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
9 May 2000
There are more than 100 Google domains (Norway and Kenya are #102 and #103). The list has since grown to more than 150.
Google becomes the world’s largest search engine; we announce the first billion-URL index.
26 june 2000
Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors. 27 March 2001 Google.com is available in 26 languages. 28 july 2001 Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.
26 March 2001
We announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
1 May 2002
American Dialect Society members vote “google” the “most useful” Word of the Year for 2002.
13 January 2003
september 2004
28 March 2005
We acquire Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.
We introduce Picasa in 25 more languages, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese.
We announce a partnership with Salesforce.com, combining that company’s on-demand CRM applications with AdWords.
5 June 2007
Thanks to all of our users, Google celebrates 10 fast-paced years.
September 2008
30 January 2006
Summer 1995
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skyeclearwater added this comment 2008-09-28 09:34:42-05:00
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vivien added this comment 2008-09-28 06:35:28-05:00
brill.good luck
skyeann added this comment 2008-09-28 00:50:13-05:00
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katrynnie added this comment 2008-09-28 00:15:40-05:00
WOW! This must have taken sometime to do ! Awesome colors and all...Thanks for sharing the history of Google with me :)
izzy972 added this comment 2008-09-28 11:20:43-05:00
thats cool!
skyeclearwater added this comment 2008-09-28 09:34:42-05:00
Wow ... great idea ... good luck :)
vivien added this comment 2008-09-28 06:35:28-05:00
brill.good luck
skyeann added this comment 2008-09-28 00:50:13-05:00
yay, fab. glog congratz
katrynnie added this comment 2008-09-28 00:15:40-05:00
WOW! This must have taken sometime to do ! Awesome colors and all...Thanks for sharing the history of Google with me :)
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