Google turns 22

Google is celebrating its 22nd birthday. The search engine was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 27, 1998.

Menlo Park, California: Google's history began in 1995 when Larry Page met Sergey Brin. At that time, Larry Page was a Ph.D. student at Standford University, and Sergey was considering studying there. In 1996, the pair began work on a search engine called BackRub.

• The name comes from the algorithm-generated ranking for how many "back-links" a page has. This engine worked on the Stanford servers for more than a year before it eventually clogged up the bandwidth and was forced to move.
• Google.com was registered on September 15th, 1997.
• The name Google is a play on "googol," which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. It is rumored that this reflects the founders' mission to organize the infinite amount of information on the internet.
• In 1998, Page launched a monthly newsletter called "Google Friends Newsletter" to inform fans about the company. Since then, this has been replaced with blogs such as Google+.
• In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to the as yet non-existent company Google Inc. He did this after seeing a quick demo on the porch of a Stanford faculty member's home in Palo Alto.
• In 1998, Brin and Page published a paper about launching a prototype of a “large-scale search engine.” "We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10100 and fits well with our goal of building very large-scale search engines,” the founders wrote.
• They incorporated Google as a California privately held company on September 4, 1998.

Some facts about Google.

Some Key milestones of Google are:-

• July 2000: Google became the world’s largest search engine and by the end of the year,
• July 2001: Images search is launched
• February 2003: Google buys blogging platform Blogger
• March 2004: Gmail was launched.
• October 2004: Google launches Desktop Search and reaches 8 billion indexes by the end of the year.
• June 2005: A landmark year for Google. The company launched Google maps. It also came up with Google Earth, Talk, and Video.
• July 2005: Android was bought by Google.
• October 2006: Google bought a video-sharing website YouTube for $1.65bn (£883m).
• September 2008: Search index reached 1 trillion and the Chrome browser was unveiled
• July 2009: Google launched its Chrome OS for netbooks
• July 2010: The first Nexus smartphone handset – the Nexus One – was launched.
• August 2011: Plans were announced for Google to buy Motorola Mobility.
• March 2012: Google launched the Play store with TV and movie rentals as well as apps.
• June 2012: Google Glass was unveiled
• September 2013: Android passed 1 billion device activations—reflecting the work of the entire Android ecosystem.
• January 26, 2014: Google Inc. announced it had agreed to acquire Deep Mind Technologies, a privately-held artificial intelligence company.
• January 2014: Google announced it was selling its Motorola Mobility unit to China-based Lenovo, for $2.91bn.
• September 2014: Google Maps were made available in the Hindi language; added Hindi voice navigation, the introduction of Android One in India.
• August 2015: Google named India-born Sundar Pichai as its CEO, replacing Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet.
• December 2016: Google announced that starting in 2017, it will work on 100% renewable energy in its data centers and offices.
• September 2017: HTC announced a “cooperation agreement” in which it would sell non-exclusive rights to certain intellectual property, as well as smartphone talent, to Google for $1.1 billion.
• December 2017: Google made its first investment in India and picked up a significant minority stake in hyper-local concierge and delivery player Dunzo.
• March 29, 2018: Google led a Series C funding round into online-to-offline fashion e-commerce start-up Fynd.

Some Popular products in the history of Google