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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prasadana2" data-source="post: 6624144" data-attributes="member: 4664">2008January    * Google.org announces five key initiatives: in addition to the previously-announced RE<C and RechargeIT, there is a new dedication to solutions that can predict and prevent crises worldwide, improve public services, and fuel the growth of small enterprises.    * We bid in the 700 MHz spectrum auction to ensure that a more open wireless world becomes available to consumers.February    * For people searching in Hebrew, Arabic, or other right-to-left languages, we introduce a feature aimed at making searches easier by detecting the direction of a query.    * Google Sites, a revamp of the acquisition JotSpot, debuts. Sites enables you to create collaborative websites with embedded videos, documents, and calendars.March    * We finally complete the acquisition deal for DoubleClick.    * Together with Yahoo and MySpace, we announce the OpenSocial Foundation, an independent non-profit group designed to provide transparency and operational guidelines around the open software tools for social computing.April    * We feature 16 April Fool's jokes from our offices around the world, including the new airline announced with Sir Richard Branson (Virgle), AdSense for Conversations, a Manpower Search (China), and the Google Wake-Up Kit. Bonus foolishness: all viewers linking to YouTube-featured videos are "Rickrolled."    * A new version of Google Earth launches, incorporating Street View and 12 more languages. At the same time, KML 2.2, which began as the Google Earth file format, is accepted as an official Open Geospacial Consortium standard.    * Google Website Optimizer comes out of beta, expanding from an AdWords-only product. It's a free website-testing tool with which site owners can continually test different combinations of their website content (such as images and text), to see which ones yield the most sales, sign-ups, leads or other goals.    * We launch Google Finance China allowing Chinese investors to get stock and mutual fund data as a result of this collaboration between our New York and Shanghai teams.    * We introduce a collection of 70+ new themes ("skins") for iGoogle, contributed by such artists and designers as Dale Chihuly, Oscar de la Renta, Kwon Ki-Soo and Philippe Starck.May    * Following both the Sichuan earthquake in China and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth adds new satellite information for the region(s) to help recovery efforts.    * Reflecting our commitment to searchers worldwide, Google search now supports Unicode 5.1.    * At a developer event, we preview Google FriendConnect, a set of functions and applications enabling website owners to easily make their sites social by adding registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, plus applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.    * With IPv4 addresses (the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet) running low, Google search becomes available over IPv6, a new IP address space large enough to assign almost three billion networks to every person on the planet. Vint Cerf is a key proponent of broad and immediate adoption of IPv6.    * Google Translate adds 10 more languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish), bringing the total to 23.    * We release Google Health to the public, allowing people to safely and securely collect, store, and manage their medical records and health information online.    * We introduce a series of blog posts detailing the many aspects of good search results on the Official Google Blog.    * California 6th grader Grace Moon wins the U.S. 2008 Doodle 4 Google competition for her doodle "Up In The Clouds."June    * Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.    * With the launch of Google Site Search, site owners can enable Google-powered searches on their own websites.    * We launch Gmail Labs, a set of experimental Gmail features, including saved searches and different kinds of stars, which let you customize your Gmail experience.    * A new version of Maps for Mobile debuts, putting Google Transit directions on phones in more than 50 cities worldwide.    * For the first time, Google engineers create the problems for contestants to solve at the 7th Annual Code Jam competition.July    * We provide Street View for the entire 2008 Tour de France route -- the first launch of Street View imagery in Europe.    * Our first downloadable iPhone app, featuring My Location and word suggestions for quicker mobile searching, debuts with the launch of the Apple 3G iPhone.    * We work with the band Radiohead to make a music video of their song "House of Cards," using only data, and not cameras.    * Our indexing system for processing links indicates that we now count 1 trillion unique URLs (and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day).August    * Street View is available in several cities in Japan and Australia - the first time it's appeared outside of North America or Europe.    * Google Suggest feature arrives on Google.com, helping formulate queries, reduce spelling errors, and reduce keystrokes.    * Just in time for the U.S. political conventions, we launch a site dedicated to the 2008 U.S. elections, with news, video and photos as well as tools for teachers and campaigners.September    * Word gets out about Chrome a bit ahead of schedule when the comic book that introduces our new open source browser is released earlier than planned on September 1. The browser officially becomes available for worldwide download a day later.    * We get involved with the U.S. political process at the presidential nominating conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties.    * We release an upgrade for Picasa, including new editing tools, a movie maker, and easier syncing with the web. At the same time, Picasa Web Albums is updated with a new feature allowing you to "name tag" people in photos.    * Google News Archive helps to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives.    * T-Mobile announces the G1, the first phone built on the Android operating system. At the same time, we release a new Android Software Developer Kit, and the Open Handset Alliance announces its intention to open source the entire Android platform by the end of 2008. The G1 becomes available for purchase in October.    * We launch Transit for the New York metro region, making public transit information easily available for users of the largest transportation agency in the U.S.    * Thanks to all of you, Google celebrates 10 fast-paced years.October    * We release the first draft of Clean Energy 2030, a proposal to wean the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity use and to reduce oil use by cars 40 percent by 2030. The plan could generate billions in savings as well as millions of "green jobs."    * We introduce Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch, complete with photos, geo-located Wikipedia articles, and the ability to tilt your phone to view 3D terrain.    * Googlers in Mountain View build a zip line to travel across the small Permanente Creek separating a few of our bulidings.November    * In a vote by 5-0, the FCC formally agrees to open up "white spaces," or unused television spectrum, for wireless broadband service. We see this decision as a clear victory for Internet users and anyone who wants good wireless communications.    * After we discover a correlation between certain search queries and CDC data on flu symptoms, we release Google Flu Trends, an indicator of flu activity around the U.S. as much as two weeks earlier than traditional flu surveillance systems.    * We announce the availability of the LIFE photo archive in Google Image Search. Only a fraction of the approximately 10 million photos have ever been seen before.    * SearchWiki launches, a way for you to customize your own search experience by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Comments can also be read by other users.December    * We invite musicians around the globe to audition to participate in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra, the world's first collaborative online orchestra.    * Google Friend Connect is available to any webmaster looking to easily integrate social features into their site.    * Street View coverage more than doubles in the United States, including several states never before seen on Street View (Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota).    * We partner with publishers to digitize millions of magazine articles and make them readily available on Google Book Search.2009January    * We kick off January with the launch of Picasa for Mac at Macworld.    * The Vatican launches a YouTube Channel, providing updates from the Pope and Catholic Church.    * Together with the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers, we announce Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform that provides tools to test broadband connections.February    * The latest version of Google Earth makes a splash with Ocean, a new feature that provides a 3D look at the ocean floor and information about one of the world's greatest natural resources.    * We introduce Google Latitude, a Google Maps for mobile feature and an iGoogle gadget that lets you share your location with friends and see the approximate location of people who have decided to share their location with you.    * After adding Turkish, Thai, Hungarian, Estonian, Albanian, Maltese, and Galician, Google Translate is capable of automatic translation between 41 languages, covering 98% of the languages read by Internet users.    * Our first message on Twitter gets back to binary: I'm 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010. (Hint: it's a button on our homepage.)March    * We launch a beta test of interest-based advertising on partner sites and on YouTube. This kind of tailored advertising lets us show ads more closely related to what people are searching for, and it gives advertisers an efficient way to reach those who are most interested in their products or services.    * We release Google Voice to existing Grand Central users. The new application improves the way you use your phone, with features like voicemail transcription and archive and search of all of your SMS text messages.    * We celebrate our San Francisco office's Gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System. We see it as a sign that we're on track with our approach to building environmentally friendly offices.    * The White House holds an online town hall to answer citizens' questions submitted on Google Moderator.    * We launch new iGoogle backdrops inspired by video games, including classics like "Mario," "Zelda," and "Donkey Kong."    * We announce Google Ventures: a venture capital fund aimed at using our resources to support innovation and encourage promising new technology companies.    * Using our transliteration technology, we build and release a feature in Gmail that makes it easy to type messages in Indian languages like Hindi or Malayalam.    * Google Suggest goes local with keyword suggestions for 51 languages in 155 domains.April    * Our April Fool's Day prank this year is CADIE, our "Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity" who spends the day taking over various Google products before self-destructing.    * We announce an update to search which enables people to get localized results even if they don't include a location in their search query.    * For India's 15th general election, we launch the Google India Elections Centre, where people can check to see if they're registered to vote, find their polling place, as well as read news and other information.    * Over 90 musicians from around the world — including a Spanish guitarist, a Dutch harpist and a Lithuanian birbyne player — perform in the first-ever YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.    * We rebuild and redesign Google Labs as well as release two new Labs: Similar Image search and Google News Timeline. Later in the month, we introduce Toolbar Labs.    * We begin to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. search pages when people search for names, giving people more control over what others find about them when they search on Google.    * We release 11 short films about Google Chrome made by Christoph Niemann, Motion Theory, Steve Mottershead, Go Robot, Open, Default Office, Hunter Gatherer, Lifelong Friendship Society, SuperFad, Jeff&Paul, and Pantograph.May    * To clear brush and reduce fire hazard in the fields near our Mountain View headquarters, we rent some goats from a local company. They help us trim the grass the low-carbon way!    * At our second Searchology event, we introduce a few new search features, including the Search Options panel and rich snippets in search results.    * We launch Sky Map for Android, which uses your Android phone to help you identify stars, constellations and planets.    * Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, wins the second U.S. Doodle 4 Google competition with her doodle "A new beginning."    * At our second annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, we preview Google Wave, a new communication and collaboration tool.June    * We add a new dashboard to the Local Business Center which gives business owners information, such as what people searched for to see their listing or how many times their listing appeared in search results, about how customers find their businesses in Google Maps.    * We introduce two new ways to customize your iGoogle page: the iGoogle Showcase, which lets you see your favorite celebrities' homepages look like and add gadgets and more from those pages to your own, and nature themes.    * Google Squared, a new experiment in Labs intended for certain kinds of complex search queries, collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection, similar to a spreadsheet.    * The Google Translator Toolkit is a new set of editing tools that helps people translate and publish work in other languages faster and at a higher quality. Our automatic translation system also learns from any corrections.    * We announce All for Good. It's a single search interface for volunteer activities across many major volunteering sites and organizations that's developed using App Engine and Google Base. Many Googlers contributed to the open source project in their 20% time.    * We release a beta version of AdSense for Mobile Applications, which allows developers to earn revenue by displaying text and image ads in iPhone and Android applications.    * Google SMS is a suite of mobile applications that allows people in Africa to access information — like health and agriculture tips, news, and local weather — using SMS on their mobile phones, and includes a marketplace application for finding buyers and sellers of goods.July    * Both the enterprise and consumer versions of Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk are now out of beta.    * We announce that we're developing the Google Chrome OS, an open source, lightweight operating system initially targeted at netbooks.    * We launch Moon in Google Earth on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. The tool features lunar imagery, information about the Apollo landing sites, panoramic images shot by the Apollo astronauts and narrated tours.    * The new comics themes for iGoogle range from classic strips like Peanuts to heroes like Batman to alternative comics from all over the world.    * We add a search options panel to Google Images, making it easier to find the types of images you need.And on and onWhat's next from Google? It's hard to say. We don't talk much about what lies ahead, because we believe one of our chief competitive advantages is surprise. You can always take a peek at some of the ideas our engineers are currently kicking around by visiting them at Google Labs. Have fun, but be sure to wear your safety goggles.</blockquote>

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