Google

Google

  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford.

  • Period: to

    Goooogle

  • Larry and Sergey make search engine: Backrub

  • Larry and Sergey call it Google

  • Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim

    writes check for $100,000 for the new Google Inc.
  • Google starts up

    Set up workspace in garage
    hires one employee
  • Moving Out

    They outgrow our garage office and move to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees.
  • First Non-Engineering employee

    Omid Kordestani joins to run sales—the first non-engineering hire.
  • Mountain Location

    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.
  • Company Chef

    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.
  • Languages Added

    French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean language support
  • Partnership with AOL

  • Blogger acquired

  • layout change

    Changed from tabs to links
  • First Office in Greater China

  • Google Maps made

  • Google in over 40 languages

  • GMail open to everyone

  • Google supports unicode

  • Google in 41 Languages

  • Announcement of Google TV

    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..
  • Google Earth

    Google Earth reaches the one billion download mark.
  • President has Google+

    After the State of the Union, U.S. President Barack Obama has a Google+ Hangout to answer questions directly from citizens.