Googles History By ramirez9621 Jan 1, 1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin begins BackRub Feb 1, 1996 BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year Sep 15, 1997 Back Rub is renamed to Google Aug 1, 1998 Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to get Google started Sep 1, 1998 Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park. Sep 21, 1998 Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he’s a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford. Dec 1, 1998 ”PC Magazine” recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998. Dec 2, 1998 Googles First Homepage Feb 1, 1999 Google moved out the garage at at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees May 3, 1999 Omid Kordestani joins to run sales – the first non-engineering hire. Jun 7, 1999 $25 million from Sequoia Capital Jun 26, 2000 Google becomes the world’s largest search engine; we announce the first billion-URL index. Mar 27, 2001 google.com in 26 languages Aug 1, 2001 Open first international office, in Tokyo. Aug 6, 2001 Eric Schmidt becomes our CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology Dec 11, 2001 index size grows to 3 billion web documents. May 1, 2002 announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com. Oct 28, 2002 first Australian office in Sydney. Feb 17, 2004 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images. Nov 1, 2004 index of web pages reaches 8 billion.
