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Tiempo 1995
Google's story begins in 1995 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. A year after Larry and Sergey, now Stanford graduate computer science students, have begun collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub has operated on Stanford servers for more than a year - it has finally been too bandwidth to adapt to the -
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Tiempo 1997
In 1997 Larry and Sergey decided that the browser BackRub needs a new name. After some ideas, which went with Google, a game of the word "googol", a mathematical term represented by the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. -
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Tiempo 1998
In August of 1998 co-founder of Sun, Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $ 100,000 to an entity that had not yet existed: a company called Google Inc. In the next month Google has created workspace in the garage of Susan Wojcicki to 232 Santa Margarita, from Menlo Park. Also on this month Larry and Sergey have hired Craig Silverstein as their first employee. He is a graduate student of computer science at Stanford. -
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Tiempo 1999
In November of 1999 Charlie Ayers has joined as Google's first chef. He has won the job of a chef-was judged by 40 employees of the company. Next year, in May, the first 10 linguistic versions of Google.com were published: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish. This month were also the first Web Awards for Google: Technical Achievement and the voice of the Peoples (voted by the users). -
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Tiempo 2001
In March of 2001 Google.com was already available in 26 languages and in coming months also image search was created and has offered access to 250 million images. Also, in August, they opened their first international office in Tokyo, while Larry and Sergey were named presidents of the products and technology. In December it was an anniversario because index size has grown to 3 billion web documents. -
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Tiempo 2002
In May 2002, Google announced a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com. At the end of the year it was already possible to search for things to buy with Froogle (later called Google Product Search). -
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2003
By the end of 2003, Google Print (which later becomes Google Book Search) was accessible, indexing small excerpts from the books that appear in the search results. -
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2004
In early 2004 the search index has made a new milestone: 6 million articles, including 4280 million web pages and images of 880 million. In March he introduced Google Local, which has offered relevant business listings, neighborhood maps and directions. In October Google Desktop Search was introduced. This allows you to search files and documents stored on the disk with Google technology. He has also acquired Keyhole, a digital cartography company. -
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2005
In February 2005 Google Maps went live and in the following month code.google.com was available, a new place for resources oriented to developers, including all Google He has also acquired Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics. In April it was possible satellite views and the rights in Google Maps. In May Google has created personalized homepage which was designed for people to customize their own Google website with the content modules they want. -
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2006
In early 2006 Picasa was introduced in more than 25 languages, including Polish, Thai and Vietnamese. After Google added the chat in Gmail, which is using Google Talk instant messaging tools. In June it was announced that it is new feature in Picasa web albums. It was already possible to upload and share photos online. -
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2007
In February 2007, on Valentine's Day, Google has made a gift for its users has opened Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it was available only by invitation.) -
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2008
In May 2008, Google Translate was next developed. Now they have been 10 more languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish Romanian and Swedish). Total number of languages was 23. Google has created Google Health, which allows people to safely collect, store and manage their medical records and online health information. -
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2009
In February 2009 after adding Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese and Galician, Google Translate is capable of automatic translation between 41 languages, covering 98 percent of the languages read by Internet users. Half a year later Afrikaans, Belarus, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish are available in the Google Translate, bringing the total number of languages to 51-which is 2,550 language pairs! In December a page design was changed. -
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2010
in January it declares its new approach to business in China: Google will no longer censor search results on Google.cn, and works to determine how to operate a search engine without filters that is within the law. During February, Google debuts in Super Bowl with a commercial that tells a love story through search results. The same month comes Google Buzz, a new way to start conversations. -
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2011
Co-founder Larry Page will become Executive Director in April 2011. Eric Schmidt will be Executive Manager. In the midst of the protests in Egypt, he presents a service called Speak to Tweet. Thus Google managed to maintain communications to the citizens of that country in the middle of the revolts that ended with the dictatorship of Mubarak. -
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2012
After the presidential report, Barack Obama made a Hangout in Google+ to answer questions directly to citizens. -
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2013
Find the company focused on strengthening its presence in the world of mobile applications. Witness of this is the purchase of Waze. But also the new year comes with Google X giving its first fruits: Google Glass. As you can see, the history of Google is extensive and very rich. So much so, that it is practically impossible to summarize it. There is online a complete file created by the company to review in detail each of its achievements throughout history.