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Larry Page and Sergey Brin begins BackRub
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BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year
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Back Rub is renamed to Google
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Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to get Google started
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Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
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Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he’s a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.
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”PC Magazine” recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.
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Googles First Homepage
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Google moved out the garage at at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees
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Omid Kordestani joins to run sales – the first non-engineering hire.
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$25 million from Sequoia Capital
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Google becomes the world’s largest search engine; we announce the first billion-URL index.
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google.com in 26 languages
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Open first international office, in Tokyo.
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Eric Schmidt becomes our CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology
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index size grows to 3 billion web documents.
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announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
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first Australian office in Sydney.
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6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.
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index of web pages reaches 8 billion.
