We have recorded some milestones in the growth of Google here.
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1995- 1997
1995
Larry Page and sergey brin met at Stanford University. Larry was 22 years old and had just graduated from the University of Michigan. He is considering which graduate school to choose, and it is Sergei of 2 1 who is responsible for showing him around. It is said that when they first met, they disagreed on almost every aspect.
1996
Larry and Sergey were graduate students majoring in computer science at Stanford University, and they started to develop a search engine called BackRub.
BackRub has been running on the server of Stanford University for more than a year, but in the end, the server was overwhelmed by the bandwidth.
1997
Larry and Sage decided to rename the search engine BackRub. After brainstorming, they chose Google, which comes from the mathematical term "googol", meaning the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. This term is used to indicate their goal: to integrate endless network information.
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1998
August
Andy Bechtolsheim, the co-founder of Sun Company, wrote a check for $65.438 billion for Google Inc, which was not established at that time.
September
Google's studio is located in susan wojcicki's garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
Google was incorporated in California on September 4th. Soon after, Larry and Sage opened a bank account for the newly established company and deposited sponsorship funds from Andy Bettol Scheim.
Larry and Sage recruited Google's first employee, Craig Silverstein; He is also a graduate student majoring in computer science at Stanford University.
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"PC Magazine" reported that "Google has the magical function of returning highly relevant search results"; We were also selected as the featured search engine of the magazine and listed as 1998 "Best 100 Website".
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1999
February
With the expansion of the company, we moved our office from the garage to No.65, University Avenue, Palo Alto, where there were only eight employees.
April
Urs Hozer, senior vice president of operations, joined Google and brought our first "company" dog, Yoshka.
May
Omid kordestani joined the sales department. He is our first non-engineer employee.
June
In our first press release, we announced that Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins invested about $25 million. John Doerr and michael moritz joined the board of directors. Moritz was quoted in the press release as saying that "Google users" are "Google people".
August
We moved to the company's first office in Mountain View, located at 2400 East Coast. Mountain View is located a few miles south of Stanford University and north of several early Silicon Valley towns (Sunnyvale, Santa Clara and San Jose).
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Charlie Ayers joined Google and became our first chef. He won the cooking competition judged by 40 employees of the company, so he got the job. He was famous before and worked as a chef in the band "Grateful Dead".
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2000
April
We released MentalPlex on April Fool's Day, claiming that Google can read minds and know what you want to search for. From then on, every April 1, we will play some practical jokes according to the tradition of Silicon Valley.
May
The earliest language version of 10 in Google.com has been published: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.
For the first time, we won the Webby Award: Technical Achievement Award (selected by judges) and People's Voice Award (selected by users).
June
We cooperate with Yahoo! Established a cooperative relationship and became the company's default search provider.
Google was the first to announce the establishment of an index of 654.38 billion websites, thus becoming the world's largest search engine.
September
The search service of China, Japan and Korea was started, and the interface language was increased to 15.
10 month
Google AdWords was released, with 350 customers at the earliest. Self-service advertising program allows customers to use credit cards for online activation, and provides keyword positioning function and advertising effect feedback.
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Google toolbar release. With this browser plug-in, you can search without visiting the Google homepage.
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We announced the appointment of Wayne Rosing, a senior engineer in Silicon Valley, as the first vice president of our engineering department.
February
We made the first public acquisition for the newsgroup forum service in Deja.com, which has saved 500 million forum messages since 1995. After the acquisition, we added search and browsing functions and launched them in the form of "Google Online Forum".
March
Eric schmidt was appointed chairman.
Google.com has 26 interface languages.
April
Swedish chef has become an optional language.
July
"Google Image Search" was released, providing 250 million images for users to search.
August
We set up our first overseas office in Tokyo.
Eric schmidt became CEO. Larry and Sergey were appointed President of Product Department and President of Technology Department respectively.
10 month
We have established a cooperative relationship with Universo Online (UOL), which makes Google the first choice for millions of Latin American users.
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Continuous attention: Our index has grown to 3 billion online documents.
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2002
February
Klingon (the language in the movie Star Trek) has become one of the 72 interface languages provided by Google.
Google hardware was released for the first time: this product is called Google Search Appliance and looks like a yellow box; Enterprises can connect this product to their own computer network and enable search function for their own documents.
We released an important update of AdWords, including a new click pricing function.
April
On April Fool's Day, we announced that our search results were strongly driven by pigeons.
We have published a series of APIs that allow developers to query more than 2 billion web documents and programs in their favorite environments, including Java, PERL and Visual Studio.
May
We have become a major partner of AOL, providing Google search service and sponsor links for 34 million users who use CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
Released by Google Labs, users can try various testing functions newly launched by our R&D team.
September
Google news release, including 4000 news sources.
10 month
We set up our first Australian office in Sydney.
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Now, users can search what they want to buy through Froogle (later renamed Google Shopping).
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2003
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The American Dialect Society named "google" as the "most useful" word in 2002.
February
We acquired Blogger's development company Pyra Labs.
March
We have launched a new content-oriented advertising service, which enables large and small website publishers to use Google's huge advertiser network. (A few weeks later, on April 23rd, we acquired Applied Semantics and developed the AdSense service with the technical support of the company. )
April
We launched Google Grants, a feedback advertising program for non-profit organizations, which allows these organizations to advertise their services on Google.
10 month
Initiate the first programming challenge, and programmers can register and win cash or honor awards. Programmers can use Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
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We launched Google Print (the predecessor of Google Book Search), which extracts a small number of books, indexes them and displays them in search results.
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2004
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We launched orkut and entered the social networking field.
February
Larry Page was elected as a member of the National Institute of Engineering.
Our search index reached a new high, reaching 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million pictures.
March
We moved to the new headquarters building, Googleplex, which is located at Park Road, Colosseum in Mountain View 1600, creating a campus-style environment for our more than 800 employees.
We officially confirmed our enterprise department and hired Dave Gill as the general manager; The reporter began to report our vision for enterprise search business in April.
We launched Google Local, which provides relevant community business information, maps and routes. (Later, we merged Google Local and Google Maps. )
April
To celebrate April Fool's Day, we announced that we would set up a new research institution, Googlunaplex, on the moon.
May
We announced the list of the first batch of Google anita borg Scholarships to encourage outstanding women majoring in computer science. Now, students from the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe can apply for this scholarship.
August
We made an initial public offering on Wall Street on August 19, 2009, and issued 19605052 Class A ordinary shares at the opening price of 85 USD per share.
September
Google has more than 100 domain names (102 is a Norwegian domain name and 103 is a Kenyan domain name). Now, Google's domain name has increased to more than 180.
10 month
We officially set up an office in Dublin, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Google employees. Sergey and Larry attended the inauguration ceremony, and Irish Deputy Prime Minister Mary Hani also praised the office at the ceremony.
Google SMS (short message service) is released, and users can send text search queries to Google or 466453 through SMS on mobile devices.
Larry and Sergey became honorary members of Marconi Society, which aims to commend scientists who have made long-term contributions to human progress in the fields of communication and Internet.
We held the inauguration ceremony of new engineering offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India. Sergey and Larry attended the ceremony.
Google Desktop Search Release: Users can start to use Google's search technology to search files and documents stored on the hard disk.
We launched a beta version of Google Academic Search, where users can search academic documents (such as peer-reviewed academic articles, papers, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports) for free.
We acquired the digital map company Keyhole, whose technology is the predecessor of Google Earth.
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The index number of our web page has reached 8 billion.
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We established Tokyo R&D (R & D) A center to attract outstanding Japanese engineers and other Asian engineers.
By establishing digital scanning partnerships with Harvard University Library, Stanford University Library, University of Michigan Library, Oxford University Library and New York Public Library, we expanded the scale of Google Print Project (later renamed Google Book Search).
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2005
February
Google's image search has achieved a milestone leap: the number of images in the index has reached 1 1 100 million.
Google Maps is online.
March
We launched code.google.com, a new website that provides various developer resources (including all our APIs).
About 14000 programmers from six countries participated in our first programming challenge in India, and Ardian Kristanto Poernomo from Singapore won the championship.
We acquired the network analysis company urchin and developed Google Analytics through its technology.
April
We released "Google Maps" for the first time in Europe (for British users).
To celebrate April Fool's Day, we announced the launch of a magic drink, which can make drinkers smarter and make better use of search results.
Google Maps now adds satellite view and route functions.
The mobile version of Google Local is released, including the function of sending driving directions by SMS.
We launched my search record function through "Google Lab", so that users can view all the web pages they have visited and all the Google searches they have conducted in a period of time.
We release the website positioning function of AdWords, which allows advertisers to more accurately direct advertisements to websites with specified content.
May
We launched Blogger Mobile, which allows bloggers to post blogs or send photos on their mobile phones.
Google Academic Search has increased support for institutional visits: search users can now search for journal articles in their own libraries.
Personalized homepage (now iGoogle) is designed to let users customize Google homepage with content modules of their choice.
June