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Larry Meets Sergey
They met at Stanford University of California. They didn't agree on many topics, but soon their great minds would create something amazing. -
BackRub was thought of by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
It began as a research project when they where PhD students at Stanford. They wanted to figure out how to relate a website's frequency of visitors to a search engine. -
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Before Founding
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Google name registered as domain!
Now they were known as Google, replacing BackRub. Google is a number with 100 zeroes, representing how many websites it can hold. -
Andy Bechtolsheim invests in Google!
Their first investor decided to write a check for $100,000 before Google Inc. even existed! -
Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google!
These two Stanford students wanted to organize data in an easy and accessible way. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. It was founded in Menlo Park, California. -
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Google
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First Employee Craig Silverstein
Fellow grad student Craig Silverstein is employed at Google Inc. -
Google expands Office!
The Google office moves to Palo Alto with just 8 employees. -
Google wins Webby Awards!
They won the Technical Achievement and Peoples' Voice awards. Now that even more people knew about them, they were on a roll! -
Google Images is released!
Google images gave users access to millions of images online. -
Google hits a search index of 6 billion!
This includes websites and images, marking a huge milestone. At this time, 6 billion was almost the world population. -
Gmail is released!
On April Fool's Day, Gmail is released by Google, but you needed an invite to join. -
Google Maps is released!
Google Maps is a program to give people directions and see the world in Satellite pictures or by roads and traffic. On June 28, 2005 was the release of Google Earth. -
Google Chrome is released!
Google's new web browser had millions of people download it. It is one of the most used, if not the most used, web browser.
