Google Throughout the Years by Jaiden Campbell and Jon Trussell

By Jaiden112

  • 1998

    1998
    Google became an official corporation. The company's mission statement was "to organize formation and make it universally accessible and useful" and the company's unofficial slogan was " Don't be evil"

  • 2000

    2000
    Google began selling Ad words, its key words related contextual advertising. In its early years google did not allow advertising in their search engine results. The search engine became profitable with the introduction of text advertisement placed at the side of search engine results. Also foreign languages were released in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch,Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

  • 2002

    2002
    Google News Service was launched

  • 2004

    2004
    iGoogle became a public company on August 19, 2004, trading of the NASDAQ stock exctange as GOOG

  • 2006

    2006
    A new verb "to google" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15, 2006

  • 2006

    2006
    Google purchased YouTube