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GOOGLE HISTORY PART 1

1995-1997 - Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around.

1996 - Larry and Sergey begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth.

1997 - Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name—a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros—reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

1998 - April - Larry launches a monthly "Google Friends Newsletter" to inform fans about company news. (We've since shut down Google Friends Newsletter in favor of blogs, Google+ and other methods of sharing news.)

August - Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet—a company called Google Inc. Before heading to the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, Larry and Sergey incorporate the iconic Man into the logo to keep people informed about where the Google crew would be for a few days—our first doodle.

September - On September 4, Google files for incorporation in California. Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company's name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim's check. Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage on Santa Margarita Ave., Menlo Park, Calif. Larry and Sergey hire their first employee. Craig Silverstein is a fellow CS grad student at Stanford who works at Google for 10+ years before joining education startup Khan Academy.

December - "PC Magazine" reports that Google "has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results" and recognizes them as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.

1999 - February - They outgrow their garage office and move to new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees.

April - Yoshka, their first "company" dog, comes to work with our senior vice president of operations, Urs Hölzle.

May - Omid Kordestani joins to run sales—employee #11. Ten years later, Omid steps down from his active role in the company, becoming a senior adviser.

June - Their first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board.

August - They move to their first Mountain View location: 2400 Bayshore. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.

November - They hire their first chef, Charlie Ayers (his previous claim to fame was catering for the Grateful Dead; he now owns a cafe in Palo Alto). Today Google's food programs focus on providing healthy, sustainably sourced food to fuel Googlers around the world.

2000 - April - They announce the MentalPlex: Google's ability to read your mind as you visualize the search results you want. Thus begins our annual foray in the Silicon Valley tradition of April 1 hoaxes.

May - They win their first Webby Awards: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples' Voice (voted by users). They run a series of doodles featuring a little alien—our first doodle series and the first doodle not associated with any particular event. The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish. Today, search is available in 150+ languages.

July - Their first international doodle celebrates Bastille Day in France.

September - Google New York starts in a Starbucks on 86th Street with a one-person sales "team." Today, more than 4,000 Googlers work in our New York office, a former Port Authority building at 111 Eighth Avenue. They start offering search in Chinese, Japanese and Korean—bringing our total number of supported languages to 15.

October - Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback. The first doodle by a guest artist, Lorie Loeb, goes live. Since then, many artists have lent their talents to the Google homepage, from Wayne Thiebaud to Christoph Niemann to Eric Carle.

December - Google Toolbar is released—a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search without visiting the Google homepage.

2001 - February - In their first public acquisition, they acquire Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, an archive of 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995. They add search and browse features and launch it as Google Groups.

March - Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors.

April - Swedish Chef becomes a language preference in search. We offer several "joke" languages, including Klingon.

July - Google Images launches, initially offering access to 250 million images.

August - They open their first international office, in Tokyo, Japan. Eric Schmidt becomes their CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology, respectively.

December - They release their first annual Google Zeitgeist, a visual look at what millions of people searched for over the year just ending. It's a revealing look at the year that was, from "Harry Potter" to "Osama Bin Laden." They continue to release Zeitgeist every year.

2002 - February - The first Google product for enterprises is released: the Google Search Appliance is a yellow box that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents. They release a major overhaul for AdWords, including new cost-per-click pricing.

April - They release the first set of Google APIs, enabling developers to query more than 2 billion web documents and program in their favorite environment, including Java, Perl and Visual Studio.

May - They release Google Labs, which let people try out beta technologies and was the proving ground for many Google features, such as Google Transit, Google Scholar and Google Trends. Nearly 10 years later, they wind down Google Labs in order to prioritize our product efforts.

September - Google News launches with 4,000 news sources. Today Google News includes 50,000+ news sources, with 70 regional editions in different languages. All told, Google News and other services send publishers 6 billion clicks per month as of 2012.

October - A few months after their first employee in Australia starts selling AdWords from her lounge room, they open their office in Sydney—the second office after Japan in APAC. their first local AdWords client is eBay Australia.

December - With the launch of Froogle (which became Google Shopping in 2012), people can search for stuff to buy.

2003 - February - They acquire Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger. Nearly as old as Google itself (Blogger started in 1999), today more than 300 million people visit Blogger every month. March - They announce Google AdSense, a new content-targeted advertising service that enables publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers. (The following month, they acquire Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)

April - They launch Google Grants—the nonprofit edition of AdWords, which provides nonprofit organizations with $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords advertising to promote their initiatives.

October - Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes and recognition at the first ever Code Jam. Today, Google Code Jam attracts tens of thousands of contestants each year, and the finals have traveled to Tokyo, Dublin, London and New York City.

December - They launch Google Print (now known as Google Books), indexing small excerpts from books to appear in search results. In 2004, the program expands through digital scanning partnerships with libraries. To date, we've scanned more than 20 million books.

2004 - January - They launch Orkut, in its heyday the most important social network in several countries.

March - They move to the new "Googleplex" at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View with 800+ employees. They introduce Google Local, offering relevant neighborhood business listings, maps, and directions. (Eventually, Local is combined with Google Maps.)

April - They launch Gmail on April Fools' Day. At first invite-only, today it boasts more than 425 million users. Fun fact: our internal code name for Gmail was "Caribou," inspired by a Dilbert cartoon. The Official Google Blog goes live. Today, we offer a wide variety of ways—including Google+ pages and Twitter accounts—for people to get news from Google, in many different languages.

May - They announce the first winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, awarded to outstanding women studying computer science. Today these scholarships are open to students in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, India, Middle East, New Zealand, and the United States.

July - They acquire Picasa, which helps people organize and display photos online.

August - Their Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street. Opening price: $85 per share.

September - Their Hong Kong office is the first Google office to open in the Greater China region.

October - They acquire Keyhole, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become Google Earth.Google SMS launches. This service enabled users to send text search queries to GOOGL or 466453 on mobile devices. They formally open our European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Googlers, a visit from Sergey and Larry, and recognition from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mary Harney. They open our new offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India. Googlers in India have worked on products ranging from Map Maker to ads to Chrome.

November - They launch Google Scholar in beta. This free service helps people search scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.

December - They establish Google.org, dedicated to the idea that technology can help make the world a better place.

2005 - February -

Google Maps goes live. Just two months later, we add satellite views and directions to the product.

April -

Google Maps comes to mobile phones in the U.S., offering driving directions and local information to people on the go. Our first Google Maps release in Europe is geared to U.K. users. France, Germany, Italy and Spain follow in 2006. Today, we offer driving directions in 190+ countries around the world. The first video goes up on YouTube (not yet part of Google). Today, 100+ hours of video are uploaded every minute and people watch 6 billion hours of video per month!

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