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Registered domain
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997. -
Legal start of Google
The company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki[11]) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee. -
Google outgrows its garage office
Google outgrows its garage office and moves to an office with eight employees.
The company gets $25m of venture capital and moves to Mountain View. -
Growth and becoming largest search engine
· The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish · Does a deal with Yahoo to become its default search provider · Google becomes the world's largest search engine with the first billion-URL index -
Eric Schmidt becomes chairman
· In its first public acquisition Google buys Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, an archive of 500m discussions dating back to 1995 · Eric Schmidt becomes chairman, then chief executive · Page and Brin are appointed presidents of products and technology, respectively -
Gmail was born
· Gmail launched · Google goes public: IPO at $85 a share · Partnerships announced with leading libraries and universities to digitally scan millions of books from their collections -
Google maps and Google earth
· Google Maps and Google Earth launched, a satellite imagery-based mapping service, followed by Google Talk -
Google acquires YouTube
· Google goes live in China · Acquires video-sharing site YouTube -
Google Street View
· Street View in Google Maps debuts in five US cities -
Chrome and another successful year for Google
· New Yahoo partnership announced · Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time · Belgian newspapers push for up to €49m (£39.4m) in damages from Google for publishing and storing their content without paying or asking permission · Surprise launch of new web browser Chrome in September -
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Google made its largest-ever acquisition to date
On August 15, 2011, Google made its largest-ever acquisition to-date when it announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion subject to approval from regulators in the United States and Europe. In a post on Google's blog, Google Chief Executive and co-founder Larry Page revealed that the acquisition was a strategic move to strengthen Google's patent portfolio. -
Google Business incubator
On September 24, 2012,[200] Google launched Google for Entrepreneurs, a largely not-for-profit business incubator providing startups with co-working spaces known as Campuses, with assistance to startup founders that may include workshops, conferences, and mentorships.[201] Presently, there are 7 Campus locations in Berlin, London, Madrid, Seoul, São Paulo, Tel Aviv, and Warsaw. -
Google aquired Waze
In June 2013, Google acquired Waze, a $966 million deal.While Waze would remain an independent entity, its social features, such as its crowdsourced location platform, were reportedly valuable integrations between Waze and Google Maps, Google's own mapping service. -
Alphabet
On August 10, 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet. Google became Alphabet's leading subsidiary, and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet. -
New features for Google users
In May 2017, Google enabled a new "Personal" tab in Google Search, letting users search for content in their Google accounts' various services, including email messages from Gmail and photos from Google Photos. -
Google and HTC
On September 21, 2017, HTC announced a "cooperation agreement" in which it would sell non-exclusive rights to certain intellectual property, as well as smartphone talent, to Google for $1.1 billion.