1995 Sergey Brin and Larry Page meet at Stamford University,
1996 March 1996 - Sergey Brin and Larry Page begin a research project working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP).
1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborate on their 'BackRub' search engine using back links in their search engine design.
1996 They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term "Googol," which is a a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed as 10100 which they felt reflected their mission to organize the massive amount of information available on the Web
1996 August 1996 - The first version of Google is released on the Stanford Web. The address: google.stanford.edu.
1997 Google.com was registered as a domain name.
1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin try to sell Google through the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). They are unsuccessful, nobody was interested in buying their serach engine and they gave up the idea of selling Google.
1998 September 7 1998 - 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"
1998 PC magazine recognized Google as the search engine of choice and one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
1999 Google opened its first office in Palo Alto and later moved to Bayshore Drive in nearby Mountain View.
1999 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in partnership with Sequoia Capital, provide Google with additional venture capital of $25 million.
1999 Sergey Brin and Larry Page drop out of the Stanford graduate studies program to concentrate on their company
2000 Google searches were made by 18 million people per day
2000 Foreign language Versions of Google.com were released in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
2000 Google began selling AdWords, its keyword related contextual advertising. In its early years Google did not allow advertising in their search engine results. The search engine became profitable with the introduction of unobtrusive text advertisements placed at the side of search results.
2001 Eric Schmidt joined Google as its first chairman and later became its chief executive officer. Larry Page became president of products and Sergey Brin became president of technology
2001 Google’s first acquisition was a discussion group site called UseNet which was owned by Deja.com. This was merged into Google Groups
2002 Google News service is launched.
2003 Google AdSense went into service for advertisers
2004 Sergey Brin and Larry Page were honored with the Marconi Prize
2004 iGoogle became a public company on August 19, 2004, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange as GOOG.
2004 Google formed the not-for-profit philanthropic Google.org
2005 Google raised $4.2 billion through its second stock offering
2005 Google Maps, Google Earth, and iGoogle were released
2006 A new verb "to google" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006
2006 Google purchased YouTube
2007 Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki were married in the Bahamas and Larry Page and Lucinda Southworth were married on Necker Island in the Caribbean.
2007 Gmail became available to the general public on February 7, 2007
2007 Google purchased DoubleClick
2007 Android distribution started on 5 November 2007. Android has a vast number of developers who write applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices
2008 Google launched Chrome, its first Web browser
2008 September 2008: T-Mobile released the G1, the first Android-based phone.
2009 November 2009 - Forbes magazine decided Sergey Brin and Larry Page were the fifth most powerful people in the world
2009 Google Wave was introduced
2010 January 5, 2010, Google released an Android phone under its own company name called the Nexus One
2010 Google was also nominated in 2010 to be the world’s most attractive employer to graduating students
2011 March - the new Google +1 is launched
2011 Co-founder Larry Page takes over the role of CEO in April 2011. Eric Schmidt becomes Executive Chairman.
2015 Google continues to develop
1996 March 1996 - Sergey Brin and Larry Page begin a research project working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP).
1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborate on their 'BackRub' search engine using back links in their search engine design.
1996 They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term "Googol," which is a a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed as 10100 which they felt reflected their mission to organize the massive amount of information available on the Web
1996 August 1996 - The first version of Google is released on the Stanford Web. The address: google.stanford.edu.
1997 Google.com was registered as a domain name.
1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin try to sell Google through the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). They are unsuccessful, nobody was interested in buying their serach engine and they gave up the idea of selling Google.
1998 September 7 1998 - 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"
1998 PC magazine recognized Google as the search engine of choice and one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
1999 Google opened its first office in Palo Alto and later moved to Bayshore Drive in nearby Mountain View.
1999 Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in partnership with Sequoia Capital, provide Google with additional venture capital of $25 million.
1999 Sergey Brin and Larry Page drop out of the Stanford graduate studies program to concentrate on their company
2000 Google searches were made by 18 million people per day
2000 Foreign language Versions of Google.com were released in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean
2000 Google began selling AdWords, its keyword related contextual advertising. In its early years Google did not allow advertising in their search engine results. The search engine became profitable with the introduction of unobtrusive text advertisements placed at the side of search results.
2001 Eric Schmidt joined Google as its first chairman and later became its chief executive officer. Larry Page became president of products and Sergey Brin became president of technology
2001 Google’s first acquisition was a discussion group site called UseNet which was owned by Deja.com. This was merged into Google Groups
2002 Google News service is launched.
2003 Google AdSense went into service for advertisers
2004 Sergey Brin and Larry Page were honored with the Marconi Prize
2004 iGoogle became a public company on August 19, 2004, trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange as GOOG.
2004 Google formed the not-for-profit philanthropic Google.org
2005 Google raised $4.2 billion through its second stock offering
2005 Google Maps, Google Earth, and iGoogle were released
2006 A new verb "to google" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006
2006 Google purchased YouTube
2007 Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki were married in the Bahamas and Larry Page and Lucinda Southworth were married on Necker Island in the Caribbean.
2007 Gmail became available to the general public on February 7, 2007
2007 Google purchased DoubleClick
2007 Android distribution started on 5 November 2007. Android has a vast number of developers who write applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices
2008 Google launched Chrome, its first Web browser
2008 September 2008: T-Mobile released the G1, the first Android-based phone.
2009 November 2009 - Forbes magazine decided Sergey Brin and Larry Page were the fifth most powerful people in the world
2009 Google Wave was introduced
2010 January 5, 2010, Google released an Android phone under its own company name called the Nexus One
2010 Google was also nominated in 2010 to be the world’s most attractive employer to graduating students
2011 March - the new Google +1 is launched
2011 Co-founder Larry Page takes over the role of CEO in April 2011. Eric Schmidt becomes Executive Chairman.
2015 Google continues to develop