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".

The unofficial company slogan, coined by former

employee and Gmail's first engineer Paul
Buchheit, is "Don't be evil".
Criticism of Google…
includes concerns regarding the
privacy of personal information,
copyright, and censorship.
How do all this happen.. ???
Milestones in the path of Google’s
Development from a garage to a multi
billion dollar entity… and moreover to the
art of googling..
1995
Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, a U
Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned
to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree
about most everything during this first meeting.

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.

• After some brainstorming, they go with Google - a

play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for
the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by
100 zeros.

•The use of the term reflects their mission to organize

a seemingly infinite amount of information on the
web.
1998
Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check
for $100,000 to an entity that doesn't exist yet: a company called
Google Inc.

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 cheque.

Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee;

he's a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.
Home page of Google in 1998
1999
Shifted from the garage office and move to new office at 165
University Avenue in Palo Alto with just 8 employees.

Another shift…. to the first Mountain View location..

Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University,

and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale,
Santa Clara, San Jose.
2000
The first 10 language versions of Google.com are released: French, German,
Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.

Forges a partnership with Yahoo! to become their default search provider.

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 AdWords launches with 350 customers. The self-service ad program

promises online activation with a credit card, keyword targeting and
performance feedback.

Google Toolbar is released. It's a browser plug-in that makes it possible to search
without visiting the Google homepage.
2001

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.

Google.com is available in 26 languages.

Image Search launches, offering access to 250 million images.

Opens first international office, in Tokyo.

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.

Keeping track: the index size grows to 3 billion web documents.

2002

Announces a major partnership with AOL to offer Google search

and sponsored links to 34 million customers using CompuServe,
Netscape and AOL.com.

Releases Google Labs, a place to try out beta technologies fresh

from Google’s R&D team.

Google News launches with 4000 news sources.

Opens their first Australian office in Sydney.

Users can now search for stuff to buy with Froogle (later called
Google Product Search).
2003

Acquires Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger.

Announces a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling

publishers large and small to access Google's vast network of
advertisers. (Weeks later, on April 23, google acquired Applied
Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named
AdSense.)

Launches Google Grants, an in-kind advertising program for

nonprofit organizations to run in-kind ad campaigns for their
cause.

Registration opens for programmers to compete for cash prizes

and recognition at the first-ever Code Jam. Coders can work in
Java, C++, C# or VB.NET.
2004
Orkut launches as a way for google to tap into the sphere of social networking.

The search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion
web pages and 880 million images.

Office shifted to the new "Googleplex" at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in

Mountain View, giving 800+ employees a campus environment.

Google SMS (short message service) launches

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.

Our index of web pages reaches 8 billion.

2005
Hits a milestone in Image Search: 1.1 billion images indexed.

Google Maps goes live

Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search
results on mobile phones.

Unveils Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D

buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.

Launches Google Talk, a downloadable Windows application that enables the

user to talk or IM with friends quickly and easily, as well as talk using a
computer microphone and speaker (no phone required) for free.

Releases Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, for measuring the

impact of websites and marketing campaigns.
2006

Release Chat in Gmail, using the instant messaging

tools from Google Talk.

Announces Picasa Web Albums, allowing users to

upload and share their photos online.

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) adds "Google"

as a verb.

Announces their acquisition of YouTube.

2007

Announces a partnership with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile

telecom carrier, to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.

For Valentine's Day, Google opened up Gmail to everyone. (Previously, it

was available by invitation only).

Partners with IBM on a supercomputing initiative so that students can

learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.

Android, the first open platform for mobile devices, and a collaboration
with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance, is announced.

The Queen of England launches The Royal Channel on YouTube. She is

the first monarch to establish a video presence this way.
2008
Together with Yahoo and MySpace, announces the OpenSocial Foundation,
an independent non-profit group designed to provide transparency and
operational guidelines around the open software tools for social computing.

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.

Web browser Google Chrome released

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.

Using the transliteration technology, google build and release a feature in

Gmail that makes it easy to type messages in Indian languages like Hindi or
Malayalam.

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..

Revenue ▲31.3% $ 21.796 billion (2008)

Operating income ▲30.4% $6.632 billion (2008)

Net income ▲.6% $4.227 billion (2008)

Total assets ▲$ 31.768 billion (2008)
Total equity ▲$ 28.239 billion (2008)
Employees 19,786 ( June 2009)
To summarize…..

Google has grown through..

• a series of new product developments
• acquisitions
• partnerships

Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations

have been important tenets during the growth of Google.

And the Result…

The Google is the Google Now