-
Period: to
Google - creation to present
-
BackRub created
Originaly a research project, in 1996 Larry Page & Sergey Brin came up with a search engine that uses a new system to rank search terms. -
Google domain name reigsterd
Brin & Page changed the company name to Goole, a misspelling of the word "googol", which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed my 100 zeros. -
Google start selling advertisments associated with search keywords
Google begin selling ads associated with keywords, based on a combination of price bids and click throughs. -
Earth Viewer Aquired
Earth viewer, which later became Google Earth was purchased when Keyhole Inc who owned the technology was aquired. -
Google launched on the US stock-market
-
'google' enters the Oxford English dictionary
(verb) "search for information about (someone or something) on the Internet, typically using the search engine Google. -
YouTube aquired
Google pay $1.65 billion for YouTube. -
Unique visitors surpasses 1 billion
The number of unique visitors to google surpasses 1 billion.