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writes check for $100,000 for the new Google Inc.
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Set up workspace in garage
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They outgrow our garage office and move to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees.
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Omid Kordestani joins to run sales—the first non-engineering hire.
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Move to our first Mountain View location: 2400 E. 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.
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Charlie Ayers joins as Google’s first chef. He wins the job in a cook-off judged by the company’s 40 employees. Previous claim to fame: catering for the Grateful Dead.
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French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean language support
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Changed from tabs to links
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At Google I/O, they announce Google TV, which is built on Android and Chrome and gives you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, websites, apps, shows and movies..
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Google Earth reaches the one billion download mark.
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After the State of the Union, U.S. President Barack Obama has a Google+ Hangout to answer questions directly from citizens.