The Google Story

Google 2 mathematicians, Larry and Sergey meet at Stanford Their shared fascination / Pattern of the Internet Together they create a search engine called.... Backrub NB: in 1997 Backrub is renamed Google From the word Goo-gol. (http://bit.ly/goo-gol) Google becomes Google Inc. 1998 - Named Top Search Engine. 1999 Google moves to Mountain View Google redesigns the logo 2000 - Google Adwords Launches with 350 customers. A quick and Easy way for any Businesss to Advertise Online Google's first April Fool's **Mentalplex** Eric Schmidth named Chairman 2001 - First International Office: Tokyo Image Search: 250 million images 2002 - Google News. 4000 news sources available online Google Search Appliance Launches 2003 - Google Content Network. Google Adsense - Increase your revenue! / Show Google ads on your website 2004 - Orkut: Social Networking site Launches Gmail Goes Live on April 1st with 1GB of storage 2005 Google Maps Goes Live iGoogle - Personalised homepages Google Reader & Google Talk launched Google Analytics: Web Stats 2006 - YouTube joins Google Google Apps & Docs offer Cloud-based computing 2007 - Android Mobile OS. Announced StreetView launched in five U.S cities Google Index 2001 = 3 Billion / 2007 = 1 Trillion 2008 - 10 years. Happy Bday Google! Google Chrome Web Browser. Faster. Safer. Easier. T-Mobile's G1. World's First Android Phone!! 2009 - Latitude, Google Wave, Chrome OS. What Next? Google