Google has become synonymous with the Internet. The company has changed the way we communicate, shop, play games, and even get directions. When did Google start?
Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. They wanted to build a better search engine than Yahoo!
Their goal was to organize information from across the web into a single place.
Google started out as a research project called BackRub. In 1999, they launched their first search engine, which became known as Google.
1998
Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were both students at Stanford University. Their goal was to make a search engine that would index the entire web.
1999
The first version of Google was released in August 1999. In January 2000, Google added its own domain name system (DNS) to the Internet.
2001
In April 2001, Google launched its AdWords program, which allowed businesses to pay per click ads.
2004
On July 4th, 2004, Google announced that it had reached 1 billion page views per day.
2005
On March 19th, 2005, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion.
2006
On February 11th, 2006, Google introduced Gmail.
2007
On May 28th, 2007, Google announced that it would acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion.