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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
09/15/1997	Google.com registered as a domain	Google's First Homepage
04/28/1998	First Google Friends Newsletter	First Friends NewsletterLarry launches a monthly “Google Friends Newsletter” on eGroups to inform fans about company news (it’s still published, on Google Groups).
08/01/1998	First investor in Google!	First InvestorSun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn’t exist yet – a company called Google Inc.
09/21/1998	First Employee	First EmployeeLarry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he’s a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.
06/07/1999	Funded by Major Venture Capital Firms	Funded 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.”
11/06/1999	Google Grows Ups	We drop the exclamation mark from our name and add a link for searches limited to U.S. government documents.
05/09/2000	Google in 10 languages WOW!	New LanguagesThe first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
05/12/2000	Google wins first Webby Award!	Webby'sWe win our first Webby Awards: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples’ Voice (voted by users).
06/26/2000	Largest Search Engine?!	1 BillionGoogle becomes the world’s largest search engine; we announce the first billion-URL index.
10/23/2000	AdWords	AdWordsGoogle AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback.
12/11/2000	Toolbar	ToolbarGoogle Toolbar is released – a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search without visiting the Google homepage.
07/28/2001	Image Search	Image Searchmage Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.
08/01/2001	International Offices	We open our first international office, in Tokyo.
09/23/2002	News	Google NewsExtra! Extra! Google News launches with 4000 news sources.
01/13/2003	Word of the Year!	American Dialect Society members vote “google” the “most useful” Word of the Year for 2002.
03/04/2003	AdSense	AdSenseGoogle announces a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google’s vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquired Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)
04/01/2004	Gmail	GmailLaunch Gmail on April Fool’s Day. (At the time, you needed an invitation to get an account.)
02/08/2005	Google Maps	MapsGoogle Maps goes live.
06/28/2005	Earth	Google EarthGoogle Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.
11/14/2005	Google Analytics	AnalyticsRelease of Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.
04/13/2006	Google Canlendar	We launch Google Calendar, complete with sharing and group features.
05/10/2006	Google Trends	Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time.
10/11/2006	Docs/Spreadsheets	Release web-based applications Docs & Spreadsheets: Word processor Docs is a reworking of Writely (acquired in March).
05/29/2007	STREEET View	Street ViewStreet View debuts in Google Maps in five U.S. cities: New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver.
02/26/2008	Right to Left Language	Right-to-LeftFor people searching in Hebrew, Arabic, or other right-to-left languages, we introduce a feature aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query.
06/02/2008	GoogleFinance	FinanceReal-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.
11/20/2008	SearchWiki	SearchWiki launches as a way for users to customize their own search experience by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Comments can also be read by other users.
02/01/2009	Google Translate	Translate Me
03/04/2009	Voice	Google Voice
04/01/2009	Google Chrome	Chrome
11/04/2009	Google Dashboard	The Google Dashboard provides you with greater transparency and control over the data associated with your Google Account.
05/31/2010	Google TV	TVGoogle announces Google TV, which is built on Android and Chrome and gives you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies. We’re busy at I/O this year, with a handful of other announcements and updates.
09/01/2010	Google Instant	Instant
01/20/2011	New Chariman
02/01/2011	Google ArtProject	ArtProject
02/07/2011	Google OnePass	OnePass
06/28/2011	Google+	Google+ Social Networking and Identity Service
10/04/2011	Moderate It	ModeratorThe White House holds an online town hall to answer citizens‘ questions submitted on Google Moderator.