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The company Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They were Ph.D students at Stanford University at the time.
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Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google. Gmail started as a limited beta release on April 1, 2004. It exited beta status on July 7, 2009.
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Google partners with GeoEye to launch a satellite.
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Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides are a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation program respectively, all part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service.
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Stock shares hit $350 for the first time.
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Google buys out it's first company, on 2 Technologies.
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In February 2010, it announced Google Fiber, a fiber-optic infrastructure that was installed in Kansas City; in April 2015, it launched Project Fi in the United States, combining Wi-Fi and cellular networks from different providers; and in 2016, it announced the Google Station initiative to make public Wi-Fi around the world, which had already been deployed in India.
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Announced the launch of a new company called Calico.
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Announced plans for a new 1 million square foot office.
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Google decides to form a partnership with Mobvoi to bring Android wear to China.