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Google.com is registered as a domain
Google makes it's begining as a domain. -
Google's first investor
Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to Google. -
First Employee
Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein, who graduated at Stanford for computer science. -
Google becomes a Search Engine
Google adds a link for searches limited to U.S Government documents. -
Google has 10 languages
Google is released in 10 different languages which include: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, and Danish. -
Google's First ever Webby Award
Google wins it's first Webby Award. Technical Achievement, voted by judges, and Peoples' Voice, voted by users. -
Google becomes the Largest Search Engine
Google becomes the largest search engine, Google announces the first billion-URL index. -
Google AdWords
Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting, and performance. -
Google Image Search
Image Search is launched which offers access to 250 million images. -
Google in Tokyo
Google opens it's first international office, in Tokyo. -
Google News
Google news is launched with 4000 news sources. -
Google is the Word of the Year
"Google" is the "most useful" Word of the Year for 2002 (voted by American Dialect Society members). -
Google AdSense
Google announces a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers. -
Google's technology improves
Google aquires Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense. -
Gmail is created
Google launches Gmail on April Fool's Day, which at the time you needed an invitation to get an account. -
Google Maps
Google Maps is created. -
Google Earth
Google Earth, a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search, is created. -
Google Analytics
Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, is releasedfor measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns. -
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is launced, complete with sharing and group features. -
Google Trends
Google Trends, a way to visualize the popularity of searches over time, is released. -
Street View
Google Maps gains Street View in five U.S. cities including, New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver -
Right to Left Language
A feature, for people searching in Hebrew, Aribic, and other right-to-left languages, aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query. -
Google Finance
Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time. -
SearchWiki
SearchWiki launches as a way for users to customize their own search experience by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Comments can also be read by other users. -
Google Dashboard
The Google Dashboard provides the user with greater transparency and control over the data associated with your Google Account. -
Google TV
Google announces Google TV, built on Android and Chrome and gives you an easy and fast way to navigate to television channels, apps, shows, and movies.