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Google Search is Launched
Larry and Sergey, Stanford computer science grad students who have collaborated for the past year on a search engine hosted on Stanford servers called BackRub, decide to rename their search engine. After some brainstorming, they go with Google. -
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Evolution of Google
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First Google Doodle
The tradition of homepage doodles is born when Larry and Sergey incorporate the iconic Burning Man into the Google logo before heading to the Burning Man festival in Nevada. -
Google Languages
Google launches in 10 additional languages: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish. -
1,000,000
Google reaches 1 billion web files you can find and becomes the worlds largest web search index. -
Toolbar
The Google toolbar is created making web search easier by having people search off their home page without having to go to google website. -
3,000,000
The Google web index size grows to 3 billion web documents. -
6,000,000
Google's web index reaches 6 billion items. -
Gmail is Created
Gmail is created and it has a storage capacity of 8 billion bits which is equivalent to 500,000 pages of email -
Google Translate
Google can instantly translate into 23 languages -
BIG WEB INDEX
The web index of google has reached over 1 TRILLION web URL's and pictures. -
Voice Search
Google introduces voice search for the first time, speeding up the process of searching. -
Image Search
You can now search topics bu showing google an image
