Google

History of Google

By 19dpayton

  • Google.com is registered as a domain

    Google makes it's begining as a domain.

  • Google's first investor

    Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to Google.

  • First Employee

    Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein, who graduated at Stanford for computer science.

  • Google becomes a Search Engine

    Google adds a link for searches limited to U.S Government documents.

  • Google has 10 languages

    Google is released in 10 different languages which include: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, and Danish.

  • Google's First ever Webby Award

    Google wins it's first Webby Award. Technical Achievement, voted by judges, and Peoples' Voice, voted by users.

  • Google becomes the Largest Search Engine

    Google becomes the largest search engine, Google announces the first billion-URL index.

  • Google AdWords

    Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting, and performance.

  • Google Image Search

    Image Search is launched which offers access to 250 million images.

  • Google in Tokyo

    Google opens it's first international office, in Tokyo.

  • Google News

    Google news is launched with 4000 news sources.

  • Google is the Word of the Year

    "Google" is the "most useful" Word of the Year for 2002 (voted by American Dialect Society members).

  • Google AdSense

    Google announces a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers.

  • Google's technology improves

    Google aquires Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.

  • Gmail is created

    Google launches Gmail on April Fool's Day, which at the time you needed an invitation to get an account.

  • Google Maps

    Google Maps is created.

  • Google Earth

    Google Earth, a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search, is created.

  • Google Analytics

    Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, is releasedfor measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.

  • Google Calendar

    Google Calendar is launced, complete with sharing and group features.

  • Google Trends

    Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time, is released.

  • Street View

    Google Maps gains Street View in five U.S. cities including, New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver

  • Right to Left Language

    A feature, for people searching in Hebrew, Aribic, and other right-to-left languages, aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query.

  • Google Finance

    Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.

  • SearchWiki

    SearchWiki launches as a way for users to customize their own search experience by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Comments can also be read by other users.

  • Google Dashboard

    The Google Dashboard provides the user with greater transparency and control over the data associated with your Google Account.

  • Google TV

    Google announces Google TV, built on Android and Chrome and gives you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, apps, shows, and movies.