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Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. Although it was launched in 1998.
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in partnership with Sequoia Capital, provide Google with additional venture capital of $25 million.
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Google began selling AdWords, its keyword related contextual advertising. In its early years Google did not allow advertising in their search engine results. The search engine became profitable with the introduction of unobtrusive text advertisements placed at the side of search results.
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iGoogle became a public company on August 19, 2004, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange as GOOG.
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Gmail became available to the general public.
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Google released an Android phone under its own company name called the Nexus One
