A Short History of "Google" Everyone Should Read

in #google6 years ago (edited)

I think Almost everyone in the world using Google services... Does anyone in general knows the history and details of this company? I'll make a small presentation and “advertising”...

 History

Nineteen Ninety Five - Nineteen Ninety Six (1995-1996)

– Founders #Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in Nineteen Ninety Five (1995). By Nineteen Ninety Six (1996), they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of individual webpages...

 Nineteen Ninety Eight (1998)

#Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by One Hundred (100) zeros. Google Inc. was born in 1998, when Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for One Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($100,000) to that entity—which until then didn’t exist. The first “Google doodle” in Nineteen Ninety Eight (1998) was intended to let visitors to the homepage know that Google’s minders were offline at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. There’s now a team of “doodlers” and Google posted more than 2,000 different doodles on homepages worldwide...


 Two Thousand (2000)

– In Two Thousand (2000), Google introduced AdWords, a self-service program for creating online ad campaigns. Today Google advertising solutions, which include display, mobile and video ads as well as the simple text ads Google introduced more than a decade ago, help #thousands of #businesses grow and be #successful...


 Two Thousand Four (2004)

– On April Fools’ Day in two Thousand Four (2004), Google launched Gmail. Google’s approach to email included features like speedy search, huge amounts of storage and threaded messages. Google Initial Public Offering of '19,605,052' shares of Class A common stock took place on Wall Street on August 18, two thousand four (2004)...


 Two Thousand Four - Two Thousand Five (2004-2005)

– Google acquired digital mapping company Keyhole in Two Thousand Four (2004), and launched Google Maps and Google Earth in Two Thousand Five (2005). Today Maps also features live traffic, transit directions and street-level imagery, and Earth lets you explore the ocean and the moon...


Two Thousand Six (2006)

– In Two Thousand Six (2006), Google acquired online video sharing site YouTube. Today Sixty- 60 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute. Cat videos, citizen journalism, political candidacy and double rainbows have never been the same...


Two Thousand Seven (20007)

– Amidst rumors of a “Gphone,” Google announced Android—an open platform for mobile devices—and the Open Handset Alliance, in Two Thousand Seven (2007)...


Two Thousand Eight (2008)

– Word got out about 'Google Chrome' a day ahead of schedule when a 'comic book' introducing 'Google’s' new open source 'browser' was shipped earlier than planned. Google officially launched on September 2, Two thousand eight (2008)...


 Two Thousand Eleven 2011

–  #Larry_Page, Google’s original chief executive officer  until Two Thousand One (2001), took up the title again in April, Two Thousand Eleven (2011). #Eric_Schmidt, now Google’s executive chairman, served in the role for Ten years. In June Two Thousand Eleven 2011, Google introduced the Google+ project, aimed at bringing the nuance and richness of #real-life sharing to the web, and making all of Google better by including people, their #relationships and their interests...

Google company has packed a lot into a relatively young life. Since Google was founded in Nineteen Ninety Eight- 1998, Google grown to serve #millions+ of people around the world...

What is next? We will waiting for see.....


Visit Google Offical Company page for more informations: http://www.google.com/about/company/

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