Happy Birthday Google: A journey to no.1 on Web

Happy Birthday Google: A journey to no.1 on Web

Google celebrates its thirteenth birthday on 4th September  ,Google’s debut on this day in 1998 has change the World Wide Web forever. The world has changed a lot in last 13 years and the search giant Google is the one of the biggest development over that time. Now Google has become a household name to billions of people worldwide. Here you’d like to hear about some of the key moments about the journey of search engine that has forever altered the World Wide Web. 

• Larry Page and Sergei Brin, founders of Google, first met in 1995 at Stanford and initiated a search service called rather oddly, BackRub in 1996.
• They changed the name to Google, represented the mathematical word ‘googol’ means the number 1 with 100 zeroes following.
• Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the Google.com domain name in September 1997.
• 13 years ago but on September 4, 1998 after receiving a check from an investor, founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin found it necessary to file for incorporation as Google Inc., so that the check could be deposited.
• Google’s First Homepage: The original Google homepage prototype debuted in November 1998.
• the two founders set up shop in Susan Wojcicki‘s garage in Menlo Park, CA, deposited their check and hired their first employee, Craig Silverstein.
• Adding The Uncle Sam Homepage in 1999, Google also outgrew its next office and moved to its first Mountain View, California location.
• I’ts partnership with Yahoo in 2000, Google Becomes Yahoo’s Default Search Provider.
• In 2000 Google announced that its index reached the 1 billion-URL mark, making it the largest search engine in the world. Google also launched AdWord, a self-service ad program that allowed people to purchase keyword advertising that would appear alongside search results.
• Image search launched in July 2001 with an index of 250 million images.
• In 2002, Google marketed its first hardware, the Google Search Appliance, announced Google Labs, and launched its News tool that provided links from 4,000 sources.
• In 2003, Google announced the world’s largest content-targeted ad program.
• Google launched Gmail on April Fool’s Day 2004, but the beta version required an invitation to join. In January Orkut launched as Google’s foray into social networking.
• Google launched Google Maps in February 2005, to go live on the first iPhone in 2007.
• In June Google released Google Earth, a satellite-powered mapping service.
• Google acquired YouTube in October 2006.
• Earlier in 2006 Google released Gchat, a Gmail-based instant message service derived from Google Talk.
• In November 2007 Google announced its first mobile venture, Android, which the company called “the first open platform for mobile devices.”
• In September 2008 Google introduced Chrome, its open source browser.
• In 2008, T-mobile announced the G1, Google’s first Android-powered mobile device.
• In 2009, Google announced its venture into real-time communication via the Wave platform. Little more than a year later, however, Wave was no more.
• In 2009, Google launched Mac-based photo application Picasa.
• In 2010 Google launched its Apps Marketplace, an app store that allows third-party developers to sell their creations.
• In the same year 2010, Google unveiled Google Buzz, it’s next attempt at social networking that originated in Gmail.
• Google Inc. released Google TV after teaming up with Intel, Sony and Logitech.
• In 2011, Google’s most talked project as it’s newest social layer Google+, launched in Jun 2011.
• In the same year, the tech giant also announced its most expensive acquisition to-date when it bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.