Where The World Goes Gooooogling !!!
Where The World Goes Gooooogling !!!
Where The World Goes Gooooogling !!!
www.google.com
Google Inc.
an American public corporation,
earning revenue from advertising
related to its Internet search, e-mail,
online mapping, office productivity,
social networking, and video sharing
services as well as selling advertising-
free versions of the same
technologies.
Most Popular Google Products & Services
The men behind Google..
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they
were students at Stanford University and the company was first
incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.
This is from where it all happens….
The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View,
California.
Google's mission…
"to organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful".
1996
Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students,
begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year --
eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.
1997
•Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search
engine needs a new name.
Announces the first billion-URL index and therefore Google becomes the
world's largest search engine.
Started offering search in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, bringing our total
number of supported languages to 15.
Google Toolbar is released. It's a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search
without visiting the Google homepage.
2001
Eric Schmidt becomes the CEO. Larry and Sergey are named presidents of
products and technology, respectively.
A new partnership with Universo Online (UOL) makes Google the major
search service for millions of Latin Americans.
Users can now search for stuff to buy with Froogle (later called
Google Product Search).
2003
The search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion
web pages and 880 million images.
Starts new engineering offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India with a visit
from Sergey and Larry.
Google Desktop Search is introduced: the user can now search for files and
documents stored on their hard drive using Google technology.
Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search
results on mobile phones.
Android, the first open platform for mobile devices, and a collaboration
with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance, is announced.
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.
Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.
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."
2009
The Vatican launches a YouTube Channel, providing updates from the Pope
and Catholic Church.
For India's 15th general election, they launched 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.
To clear bush and reduce fire hazard in the fields near their Mountain View
headquarters, they rent some goats from a local company which helped to
trim the grass the low-carbon way!
And this is where Google is now..