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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prasadana2" data-source="post: 6624136" data-attributes="member: 4664">1998August    * Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet: a company called Google Inc.September    * Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.    * Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company's name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim's check.    * Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he's a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.December    * "PC Magazine" reports that Google "has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results" and recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.1999February    * We outgrow our garage office and move to new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees.April    * Yoshka, our first "company" dog, comes to work with our senior vice president of operations, Urs Hoelzle.May    * Omid Kordestani joins to run sales -- the first non-engineering hire.June    * Our first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board. The release quotes Moritz describing "Googlers" as "people who use Google."August    * We move to our first Mountain View location: 2400 E. Bayshore. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.November    * Charlie Ayers joins as Google's first chef. He wins the job in a cook-off judged by the company's 40 employees. Previous claim to fame: catering for the Grateful Dead.2000April    * On April Fool's Day, we announce the MentalPlex: Google's ability to read your mind as you visualize the search results you want. Thus begins our annual foray in the Silicon Valley tradition of April 1 hoaxes.May    * The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.    * We win our first Webby Awards: Technical Achievement (voted by judges) and Peoples' Voice (voted by users).June    * We forge a partnership with Yahoo! to become their default search provider.    * We announce the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the world's largest search engine.September    * We start offering search in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, bringing our total number of supported languages to 15.October    * Google AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and performance feedback.December    * Google Toolbar is released. It's a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search without visiting the Google homepage.2001January    * We announce the hire of Silicon Valley veteran Wayne Rosing as our first VP of engineering operations.February    * Our first public acquisition: Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service, an archive of 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995. We add search and browse features and launch it as Google Groups.March    * Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors.    * Google.com is available in 26 languages.April    * Swedish Chef becomes a language preference.July    * Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.August    * We open our first international office, in Tokyo.    * Eric Schmidt becomes our CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of products and technology, respectively.October    * A new partnership with Universo Online (UOL) makes Google the major search service for millions of Latin Americans.December    * Keeping track: Our index size grows to 3 billion web documents.2002February    * Klingon becomes one of 72 language interfaces.    * The first Google hardware is released: it's a yellow box called the Google Search Appliance that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents.    * We release a major overhaul for AdWords, including new cost-per-click pricing.April    * For April Fool's Day, we announce that pigeons power our search results.    * We release a set of APIs, enabling developers to query more than 2 billion web documents and program in their favorite environment, including Java, Perl and Visual Studio.May    * We announce a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe, Netscape and AOL.com.    * We release Google Labs, a place to try out beta technologies fresh from our R&D team.September    * Google News launches with 4000 news sources.October    * We open our first Australian office in Sydney.December    * Users can now search for stuff to buy with Froogle (later called Google Product Search).2003January    * American Dialect Society members vote "google" the "most useful" Word of the Year for 2002.February    * We acquire Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.March    * We announce a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, we acquired Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.)April    * We launch Google Grants, our in-kind advertising program for nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for their cause.October    * Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first-ever Code Jam. Coders can work in Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.December    * We launch Google Print (which later becomes Google Book Search), indexing small excerpts from books to appear in search results.2004January    * orkut launches as a way for us to tap into the sphere of social networking.February    * Larry Page is inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.    * Our search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.March    * We move to our new "Googleplex" at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, giving 800+ employees a campus environment.    * We formalize our enterprise unit with the hire of Dave Girouard as general manager; reporters begin reporting in April about our vision for the enterprise search business.    * We introduce Google Local, offering relevant neighborhood business listings, maps, and directions. (Later, Local is combined with Google Maps.)April    * For April Fool's we announce plans to open the Googlunaplex, a new research facility on the Moon.May    * We announce the first winners of the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, awarded to outstanding women studying computer science. Today these scholarships are open to students in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe.August    * Our Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street on August 18. Opening price: $85 per share.September    * There are more than 100 Google domains (Norway and Kenya are #102 and #103). The list has since grown to more than 150.October    * We formally open our office in Dublin, Ireland, with 150 multilingual Googlers, a visit from Sergey and Larry, and recognition from the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Mary Harney.    * Google SMS (short message service) launches; send your text search queries to GOOGL or 466453 on your mobile device.    * Larry and Sergey are named Fellows by the Marconi Society, which recognizes "lasting scientific contributions to human progress in the field of communications science and the Internet."    * We spotlight our new engineering offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India with a visit from Sergey and Larry.    * Google Desktop Search is introduced: you can now search for files and documents stored on your hard drive using Google technology.    * We launch the beta version of Google Scholar, a free service for searching scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.    * We acquire Keyhole, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become Google Earth.November    * Our index of web pages reaches 8 billion.December    * We open our Tokyo R&D (research & development) center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers.    * The Google Print Program (since renamed Google Book Search) expands through digital scanning partnerships with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, and Oxford plus the New York Public Library.2005February    * We hit a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.    * Google Maps goes live.March    * We launch code.google.com, a new place for developer-oriented resources, including all of our APIs.    * Some 14,000 programmers from six countries compete for cash prizes and recognition at our first coding competition in India, with top scores going to Ardian Kristanto Poernomo of Singapore.    * We acquire Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.April    * Our first Google Maps release in Europe is for the U.K.    * For April Fool's, we announce a magical beverage that makes its imbibers more intelligent, and therefore better capable of properly using search results.    * Google Maps now features satellite views and directions.    * Google Local goes mobile, and includes SMS driving directions.    * My Search History launches in Labs, allowing you to view all the web pages you've visited and Google searches you've made over time.    * We release Site Targeting, an AdWords feature giving advertisers the ability to better target their ads to specific content sites.May    * We release Blogger Mobile, enabling bloggers to use their mobile phones to post and send photos to their blogs.    * Google Scholar adds support for institutional access: searchers can now locate journal articles within their own libraries.    * Personalized Homepage (now iGoogle) is designed for people to customize their own Google homepage with content modules they choose.June    * We hold our first Summer of Code, a 3-month $2 million program that aims to help computer science students contribute to open source software development.    * Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search results on mobile phones.    * We unveil Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.    * We release Personalized Search in Labs: over time, your (opt-in) search history will closely reflect your interests.    * API for Maps released; developers can embed Google Maps on many kinds of mapping services and sites.August    * Google scores well in the U.S. government's 2005 machine translation evaluation. (We've done so in subsequent years as well.)    * We launch Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables you to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily, as well as talk using a computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.September    * Overlays in Google Earth illuminate the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina around New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Some rescue teams use these tools to locate stranded victims.    * DARPA veteran Vint Cerf joins Google to carry on his quest for a global open Internet.    * Dr. Kai-Fu Lee begins work at our new Research and Development Center in China.    * Google Blog Search goes live; it's the way to find current and relevant blog postings on particular topics throughout the enormous blogosphere. October    * Feed aficionados rejoice as Google Reader, a feed reader, is introduced at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.    * Googlers volunteer to produce the first Mountain View book event with Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink" and "The Tipping Point."  Since then, the Authors@Google program has hosted more than 480 authors in 12 offices across the U.S., Europe and India.November    * We release Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the impact of websites and marketing campaigns.    * We announce the opening of our first offices in São Paulo and Mexico City.December    * Google Transit launches in Labs. People in the Portland, Oregon metro area can now plan their trips on public transportation at one site.    * Gmail for mobile launches in the United States.</blockquote>

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