Google Timeline By ihes65 1996 Google is Founded by two Stanford students 1998 Funding Ariives 1998 Google Moves off campus to Susan Wokijiki's garage in Menlo Park, California 1999 More Investments arrive 1999 Google moves to a offiche in Palo Alto, California 1999 Google moves to Mountan View, California 2000 Google begins advertising 2001 Eric Schimdit is named CEO of Google 2004 Google creates Gmail 2004 Google debuts on NASDAQ 2005 Google launches Google Maps, later launches Google Earth 2005 Google Buys Android for $50M 2005 Google launches Google Talk. 2006 Google launches YouTube 2006 Google is launched in China 2007 Google's ad business grows 2007 Google launches street view 2008 Google makes search engine, Google Chrome 2010 Google creates Nexus One, their first smartphone 2010 Google launches Fiber, a fast type of internet 2011 Android becomes most used phone OS in the country. 2011 Eric Schimdit quits as Google CEO, Larry Page replaces 2012 Google creates Google Play 2013 Google realeases Crome Cast 2014 Google buys Nest 2015 Sundar Pichai is named Google CEO 2016 Google Pixel is created 2017 Google Buys HTC