Sunday, October 5, 2008

Google History

In the beginning 1995: Larry page and Sergey Brin meet as stand ford grad students.

Backdoor entry 1996: Google is released on the stand ford university website.

Cash crunch 1998: Google is incorporated on September 7, with $1mn raised from family and friends.

Office space 1999: Google involves to an office on University Avenue in Palo Alto, now with 8 employees. The company moves to Googlelplex in Mountain View.

Search giant 2000: by the end of the year Google handles more than 100 million searches pre day.

New leader 2001: Eric Schmidt former novel CEO and chief technology officer of sun, is named chief executive officer of Google.

You’ve got Gmail 2004:
on April 1, Google launched gmail. On august 19shares of Google priced at $85, start trading on Nasdaq- they end the day at 100.34, up 18%. It raised $1.7 billion, making it the largest IPO in Silicon Valley history.

Word power 2003 American dialect society members vote “Google” the most useful word of the year for 2005 Google announces partnership with leading libraries and universities to digitally scan millions of books from there collection.

Eye on earth 2005: Google maps and Google earth launched a satellite imagery based mapping service followed by Google talk.

Great wall broken 2006:
Google goes live in china. Acquires video-sharing site you tube. Surpassed yahoo to become worlds second most visited web site behind Microsoft. Google buys video sharing web site you tube for $1.65 billion

Surfs up 2008: Google introduces chrome a web browser designed to compete with Microsoft Internet explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox

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