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Google's two founders meet at Stanford University as two students completing their PhDs.
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Google's two founders begin collaboration on their first project, a search engine call BackRub. Backrub is mainly used by students at Stanford University
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Backrub is renamed to Google and launched
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Google's owners attempt to sell the company. They are unsuccessful. Page and Brin would look back to this day and realise how lucky they were.
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Sun Microsystems invests $100,000 in Google, marking the beginning of Google's growth
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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"
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PC Magazine awards Google the award of Top Search Engine and lists it as one of the top 100 sites on the web.
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Google opens their first office in Palo Alto, the hub of tech startups in America in SIlicon Valley
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By the beginning of the 21st century, 18 million sraches were being made daily
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Foreign language Versions of Google.com were released in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
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Between 2000 and 2003, Google released AdWords and AdSense to allow business owners to advertise using the world's most popular search engine.
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Google launches as a public company on the NASDAQ exchange. The initial price was $85, one tenth of the current share price
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Google launches Google.org to create technology that will make a positive social impact.
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Google creates Google Maps and Google Earth, diversifying their investment, expanding into new territories, and allowing users to find directions to just about any place in the world
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A new verb "to google" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15. This reflects Google's popularity in the 21st century
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Google purchases popular video site, Youtube, expanding it well beyond its initial success.
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Google launced Gmail, an internet email service. Today Gmail is the most popular webmail service
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Google releases their Android Operating System, claiming it to be more efficient and effective than Apple's iOS.
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Google releases Google Chrome, an internet browser, in response to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Again, Google claims that Chrome is quicker and simpler than the alternatives
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The major phone producers release phones using Google's Android OS. Android quickly gains momentum and eventually becomes the world's most popular mobile operating system.
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Google releases their response to popular social networking site, Facebook, launching Google+. Google+ currently has 500 million users
