Timeline of Google

Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet

Jan 1, 1995

Google's two founders meet at Stanford University as two students completing their PhDs.

Page and Brin collaborate

Jan 1, 1996

Google's two founders begin collaboration on their first project, a search engine call BackRub. Backrub is mainly used by students at Stanford University

Backrub renamed Google

Aug 1, 1996

Backrub is renamed to Google and launched

Page and Brin try to sell Google

Jan 1, 1997

Google's owners attempt to sell the company. They are unsuccessful. Page and Brin would look back to this day and realise how lucky they were.

Significant investment

Jan 1, 1998

Sun Microsystems invests $100,000 in Google, marking the beginning of Google's growth

Official corporation

Sep 4, 1998

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

Best Search Engine

Nov 1, 1998

PC Magazine awards Google the award of Top Search Engine and lists it as one of the top 100 sites on the web.

First Office in Palo Alto

Jan 1, 1999

Google opens their first office in Palo Alto, the hub of tech startups in America in SIlicon Valley

18 Million Searches Daily

Jan 1, 2000

By the beginning of the 21st century, 18 million sraches were being made daily

Foreign Language Search

Jun 1, 2000

Foreign language Versions of Google.com were released in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean

Google services for business

Jan 1, 2001

Between 2000 and 2003, Google released AdWords and AdSense to allow business owners to advertise using the world's most popular search engine.

Google goes public

Aug 24, 2004

Google launches as a public company on the NASDAQ exchange. The initial price was $85, one tenth of the current share price

Google.org launches

Nov 1, 2004

Google launches Google.org to create technology that will make a positive social impact.

Google Maps and Google Earth

Jan 1, 2005

Google creates Google Maps and Google Earth, diversifying their investment, expanding into new territories, and allowing users to find directions to just about any place in the world

Google added to dictionary

Jan 1, 2006

A new verb "to google" was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary on June 15. This reflects Google's popularity in the 21st century

Google purchases Youtube

Jun 1, 2006

Google purchases popular video site, Youtube, expanding it well beyond its initial success.

Gmail launches

Jan 1, 2007

Google launced Gmail, an internet email service. Today Gmail is the most popular webmail service

Android Operating System

Jun 1, 2007

Google releases their Android Operating System, claiming it to be more efficient and effective than Apple's iOS.

Google Chrome

Jan 1, 2008

Google releases Google Chrome, an internet browser, in response to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Again, Google claims that Chrome is quicker and simpler than the alternatives

Android phones released

Jan 1, 2010

The major phone producers release phones using Google's Android OS. Android quickly gains momentum and eventually becomes the world's most popular mobile operating system.

Google+

Jan 1, 2011

Google releases their response to popular social networking site, Facebook, launching Google+. Google+ currently has 500 million users