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Timeline of GOOGLE

By dilekmercan

  • Larry Page was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan

  • Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia.

  • The World Wide Web is launched to the public

  • Sergey Brin attended the University of Maryland, College Park to study computer science and mathematics and received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors

  • Larry Page attended the University of Michigan to study computer engineering and received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors.

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    GOOGLE

    Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
    Sergey Brin was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia

  • Sergey Brin and Larry Page meet at Stamford University, in Palo Alto, California, to study for their Phd's.

  • 1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin produce a paper, "Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," became the basis for the Google search engine.

  • They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term "Googol," which is a a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed as 10100 which they felt reflected their mission to organize the massive amount of information available

  • August 1996 - The first version of Google is released on the Stanford Web. The address: google.stanford.edu.

  • 1997 Google.com was registered as a domain name

  • Google became an official corporation. The company's mission statement was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" and the company's unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil"

  • Foreign language Versions of Google.com were released in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

  • Google News service is launched.

  • Google AdSense went into service for advertisers

  • iGoogle became a public company.

  • Google Maps, Google Earth, and iGoogle were released.

  • A new verb "to google" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

  • Gmail became available to the general public.

  • Google Health became available.

  • Google launched Chrome, its first Web browser.

  • Google Wave was introduced.

  • The new Google +1 is launched.

  • Co-founder Larry Page takes over the role of CEO .

  • Google purchased YouTube.