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Google is the most widely used search engine in the
world. The Co-Founders of Google were Larry Page &
Sergey Brin
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1973 |
Larry Page was born on March
26, 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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1973 |
Sergey Brin was born on August
21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia
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1990 |
Tim Berners-Lee and
Robert Cailliau proposed a 'hypertext' system
starting the modern Internet |
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1991 |
The
World Wide Web is launched to the public on August
6, 1991
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1993 |
Sergey Brin attended the
University of Maryland, College Park to study
computer science and mathematics and received his
Bachelor of Science degree in May 1993 with honors
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1994 |
Larry Page attended the
University of Michigan to study computer engineering
and received his Bachelor of Science degree with
honors.
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1995 |
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
meet at Stamford University, in Palo Alto,
California, to study for their Phd's.
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1996 |
March 1996 - Sergey Brin and
Larry Page begin a research project working on the
Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The aim of
the project was “to develop the enabling
technologies for a single, integrated and universal
digital library."
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1996 |
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
collaborate on their 'BackRub' search engine using
back links in their search engine design.
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1996 |
1996 Larry Page and Sergey
Brin produce a paper, "Anatomy of a Large-Scale
Hypertextual Web Search Engine," became the basis
for the Google search engine.
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1996 |
They called the search engine
Google after the mathematical term "Googol," which
is a a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100
zeros and expressed as 10100 which they felt
reflected their mission to organize the massive
amount of information available on the Web
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1996 |
August 1996 - The first
version of Google is released on the Stanford Web.
The address: google.stanford.edu.
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1997 |
Google.com was registered as a
domain name. |
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1997 |
Larry Page and Sergey Brin try
to sell Google through the venture capital firm of
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). They are
unsuccessful, nobody was interested in buying their
serach engine and they gave up the idea of selling
Google.
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1998 |
Andy Bechtolsheim, a
founder of Sun Microsystems, watched the demo for
Google (which was getting more than 10,000 queries
per day) and wrote a $100,000 check to get the
company started.
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1998 |
September 7 1998 - Google
became an official corporation. The company's
mission statement was "to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible and
useful" and the company's unofficial slogan was
"Don't be evil"
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1998 |
PC magazine recognized Google
as the search engine of choice and one of the Top
100 Web Sites for 1998.
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1999 |
Google opened its first office
in Palo Alto and later moved to Bayshore Drive in
nearby Mountain View.
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1999 |
Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
Byers, in partnership with Sequoia Capital, provide
Google with additional venture capital of $25
million.
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1999 |
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
drop out of the Stanford graduate studies program to
concentrate on their company
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2000 |
Google searches were made by
18 million people per day
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2000 |
Foreign language Versions of
Google.com were released in French, German, Italian,
Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch,
Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
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2000 |
Google began selling AdWords,
its keyword related contextual advertising. In its
early years Google did not allow advertising in
their search engine results. The search engine
became profitable with the introduction of
unobtrusive text advertisements placed at the side
of search results.
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2001 |
Eric Schmidt joined Google
as its first chairman and later became its chief
executive officer. Larry Page became president of
products and Sergey Brin became president of
technology
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2001 |
Google’s first acquisition was
a discussion group site called UseNet which was
owned by Deja.com. This was merged into Google
Groups
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2002 |
Google News service is
launched.
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2002 |
Larry Page was named a
World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow.
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2003 |
Google AdSense went into
service for advertisers |
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2004 |
Google moved to its new
Mountain View campus which was nicknamed Googleplex. |
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2004 |
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
were honored with the Marconi Prize |
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2004 |
iGoogle became a public
company on August 19, 2004, trading on the NASDAQ
stock exchange as GOOG.
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2004 |
Google formed the
not-for-profit philanthropic Google.org
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2005 |
Google raised $4.2 billion
through its second stock offering |
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2005 |
Google Maps, Google Earth, and
iGoogle were released
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2006 |
A new verb "to google" was
officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on
June 15, 2006
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2006 |
Google purchased YouTube
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2007 |
Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki
were married in the Bahamas and Larry Page and
Lucinda Southworth were married on Necker Island in
the Caribbean.
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2007 |
Gmail became available to the
general public on February 7, 2007
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2007 |
Google purchased DoubleClick
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2007 |
Android distribution started
on 5 November 2007. Android has a vast number of
developers who write applications ("apps") that
extend the functionality of the devices
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2008 |
Google Health became available |
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2008 |
Google launched Chrome, its
first Web browser |
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2008 |
September 2008: T-Mobile
released the G1, the first Android-based phone.
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2009 |
November 2009 - Forbes
magazine decided Sergey Brin and Larry Page were the
fifth most powerful people in the world
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2009 |
Google Wave was introduced
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2010 |
January 5, 2010, Google
released an Android phone under its own company name
called the Nexus One
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2010 |
Google was also nominated in
2010 to be the world’s most attractive employer to
graduating students
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2011 |
March - the new Google +1 is
launched
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2011 |
Co-founder Larry Page takes
over the role of CEO in April 2011. Eric Schmidt
becomes Executive Chairman.
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The dominant market position
of Google's services has led to criticism of the
company over issues including privacy, copyright,
and censorship
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