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Google makes it's begining as a domain.
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Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to Google.
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Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein, who graduated at Stanford for computer science.
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Google adds a link for searches limited to U.S Government documents.
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Google is released in 10 different languages which include: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, and Danish.
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Google wins it's first Webby Award. Technical Achievement, voted by judges, and Peoples' Voice, voted by users.
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Google becomes the largest search engine, Google announces the first billion-URL index.
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Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting, and performance.
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Image Search is launched which offers access to 250 million images.
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Google opens it's first international office, in Tokyo.
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Google news is launched with 4000 news sources.
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"Google" is the "most useful" Word of the Year for 2002 (voted by American Dialect Society members).
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Google announces a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers.
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Google aquires Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.
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Google launches Gmail on April Fool's Day, which at the time you needed an invitation to get an account.
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Google Maps is created.
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Google Earth, a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search, is created.
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Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, is releasedfor measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.
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Google Calendar is launced, complete with sharing and group features.
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Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time, is released.
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Google Maps gains Street View in five U.S. cities including, New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver
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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.
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Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.
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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.
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The Google Dashboard provides the user with greater transparency and control over the data associated with your Google Account.
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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.