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Larry and Sergey, Stanford computer science grad students who have collaborated for the past year on a search engine hosted on Stanford servers called BackRub, decide to rename their search engine. After some brainstorming, they go with Google.
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The tradition of homepage doodles is born when Larry and Sergey incorporate the iconic Burning Man into the Google logo before heading to the Burning Man festival in Nevada.
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Google launches in 10 additional languages: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
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Google reaches 1 billion web files you can find and becomes the worlds largest web search index.
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The Google toolbar is created making web search easier by having people search off their home page without having to go to google website.
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The Google web index size grows to 3 billion web documents.
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Google's web index reaches 6 billion items.
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Gmail is created and it has a storage capacity of 8 billion bits which is equivalent to 500,000 pages of email
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Google can instantly translate into 23 languages
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The web index of google has reached over 1 TRILLION web URL's and pictures.
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Google introduces voice search for the first time, speeding up the process of searching.
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You can now search topics bu showing google an image