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Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford.
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Period: to
Goooogle
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Larry and Sergey make search engine: Backrub
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Larry and Sergey call it Google
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Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim
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Google starts up
Set up workspace in garage
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Moving Out
They outgrow our garage office and move to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees. -
First Non-Engineering employee
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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
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Blogger acquired
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layout change
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First Office in Greater China
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Google Maps made
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Google in over 40 languages
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GMail open to everyone
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Google supports unicode
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Google in 41 Languages
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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.