Google Quiz
Google's first international doodle celebrates...
Bastille Day in France.
Google acquires YouTube in...
Oct. 2006; • people think the roughly $1.6 billion acquisition is ludicrously expensive. It turns out to be an absolute steal.
Google Maps
October 2009 release of Google Maps Navigation more or less immediately tanks the GPS-as-discrete-device market.
Eric Schmidt
joins Google in March 2001 as the "grown-up" CEO to oversee Google's growth (remember, neither of its cofounders have yet turned 30).
Google AdSense
launched in March 2003, further adding to Google's growing advertising business.
In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin...
meet at Stanford. Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around. 1996: Larry and Sergey begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth.
The First Google Doodle was in honor of...
the Burning Man Festival of 1998. The doodle was designed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. Since 2000, Doodles have been organized and created by a team of employees termed "Doodlers".
Alliance for Affordable Internet
was launched in Oct. 2013; Google is part of the coalition of public and private organizations that also includes Facebook, Intel, and Microsoft. Led by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
It was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University.
Google Voice's launch
in March 2009 (free online calling, voicemail transcriptions) continued the hey-it's-the-future-everything-is-free-and-amazing party.
In April 2005,
the first video is uploaded to YouTube (not yet a part of Google).
Psy's Gangman Style
the most-watched video of all time- the first and only YouTube video to reach 1 billion views.
Google and Alphabet
"On August 10, 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a holding company, Alphabet Inc., with Google as its leading subsidiary. Google will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google."
Google Instant
(the thing where search results appear as you type) launches in September 2010.
Today, gmail has over...
1 billion users.
On April Fool's 2004...
Gmail is launched. At first, it was invite only, but now it is 425 million users.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics' launch in November 2005 offers an unprecedented free tool for understanding users' behavior on a web site.
In July 2009,
Google Docs (the result of the acquisition of a company called Writely) leaves beta.
Android
In September 2013, Android crosses the 1 billion device activation milestone.
Authors Guild
filed a class action suit against Google over Google Books.
Google Chrome
released in September 2008, immediately made every other browser on the market feel outdated and slow. (It kicked off the JavaScript performance revolution.)
Google made the Top 100 Web Sites for
1998.
Google Calendar was launched in...
April 2006.
1996: Larry and Sergey begin collaborating on a search engine called
BackRub
In 2005...
Google Maps goes live, and it comes to mobile phones.
Google's mission statement
Google's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."
PageRank
Google's original innovation (PageRank (after Larry Page, not the term web page, also nicknamed BackRub) is based on the concept of determining a page's relative importance based on the number and quality of sites that link to it.
In July 2001...
Google Images launches, and in August of that year, they opened their first international office in Tokyo, Japan. Eric Schmidt becomes their CEO.
Google's motto
In 2015, Google's motto of "Don't be evil" was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the phrase "Do the right thing".
Google and renewable energy
In 2016, Google announced that starting in 2017, it will power of its data centers, as well as all of its offices, from 100% renewable energy. The commitment will make Google "the world's largest corporate buyer of renewable power, with commitments reaching 2.6 gigawatts of wind and solar energy".
Google's name
Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word "googol",[15][16] the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.[17] Originally, Google ran under Stanford University's website, with the domains google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu
Google's first successful product was...
Search.
Google's second international office was in...
Sydney.
Domain name for google
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,[20] and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki[8]) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.
1997: Google.com is registered as a domain on Sept. 15.
The name—a play on the world "googol" is a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of info on the web.
1997: Google.com is registered as...
a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web."
Google LLC
an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products.
Google APIs
are a set of application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services. Examples: Search, Gmail, Translate or Google Maps.
In 2001, Eric Schmidt is named...
chairman of the board of directors.
