Google said co-founder Larry Page will replace Eric Schmidt in April as chief executive of the world's No. 1 search engine company. Here are some milestones in Google's history:
1995 - Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University.According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting.
1996 - Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
1997 - Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
1998 - Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki‘s garage and files for incorporation in California on September 4.
1999 - Google's first press release announces a $25 million round of investment from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.
2000 - Google launches keyword advertising sales system AdWords with 350 customers,announce the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the world’s largest search engine
2001 - Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.Schmidt is named chief executive and chairman of the board of directors.
2002 - Google Labs released,announces a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
2003 - acquires Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.A month later announce Adsense
2004 - Orkut launched,tap into the sphere of social networking.Initial public offering of roughly 19.6 million shares at an opening price of $85 per share
2005 - Hit a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.Google Maps goes live.
2006 - Introduces Picasa,buys online video service YouTube.
2007 - Google share price tops $700.For Valentine‘s Day,opens up Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it was available by invitation only.)
2008 - Indexing system for processing links indicates Google searches 1 trillion unique URLs.
2009 - first message on Twitter gets back to binary: I‘m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.(Help)
2010 - First Google Super Bowl ad.
2011 - Page becomes chief executive, Schmidt stays as executive chairman
1995 - Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University.According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting.
1996 - Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
1997 - Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
1998 - Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki‘s garage and files for incorporation in California on September 4.
1999 - Google's first press release announces a $25 million round of investment from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins.
2000 - Google launches keyword advertising sales system AdWords with 350 customers,announce the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the world’s largest search engine
2001 - Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.Schmidt is named chief executive and chairman of the board of directors.
2002 - Google Labs released,announces a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.
2003 - acquires Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.A month later announce Adsense
2004 - Orkut launched,tap into the sphere of social networking.Initial public offering of roughly 19.6 million shares at an opening price of $85 per share
2005 - Hit a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.Google Maps goes live.
2006 - Introduces Picasa,buys online video service YouTube.
2007 - Google share price tops $700.For Valentine‘s Day,opens up Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it was available by invitation only.)
2008 - Indexing system for processing links indicates Google searches 1 trillion unique URLs.
2009 - first message on Twitter gets back to binary: I‘m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.(Help)
2010 - First Google Super Bowl ad.
2011 - Page becomes chief executive, Schmidt stays as executive chairman
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