Google

Google is the world's dominant online search engine, but also offers email, online word processing, and other services. Google Analytics is a powerful, free statistical analysis service from Google.

On June 1, 2009 : Google announced that it would start selling eBooks directly to the public. The move, which is expected before the end of 2009, would make Google a competitor with Amazon, eBooks.com, iTunes and other eBook retailers.

News Timeline Tool On April 20, 2009 : Google Labs held a press event where the company unveiled the Google News Timeline, a product that allows users to receive their search result in a graphical timeline format. The tool renders its search results via Google News, YouTube and Google News Archives.

Google Lay offs On January 14, 2009 : Reports said Google planned to lay off 100 full-time recruiters in the wake of a "broad advertising slowdown". The company also said it would close three engineering offices Key Dates

  • 1996 : Page and Brin begin to collaborate on a search engine called BackRub
  • 1998 : Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 check to Page and Brin to finance their start-up
  • 1999 : Attained first round of funding from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  • 2000 : Google and Yahoo! announced a partnership
  • 2002 : Developed AdWords
  • 2004 : Google IPO's on NASDAQ

April Fools Jokes Google

Began a tradition of Aprils Fools jokes in 2000 with the pseudo-release of its Mental Plex technology, which would reportedly read the user's brainwaves and eliminate the need to even type in the search request. Most of the jokes are laughable implausible applications or services based partly on real capabilities but poking fun at Google's leadership role in online search.

Brief History Google

was founded by two Stanford University PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They began Google as a research project in early 1996, calling it Back Rub since its function was to check the number of links to a site (called back links) to rank it. The search engine was first set up at Stanford under the domain google.stanford.edu. On September 15, 1997, Google Inc. was founded.

Google To Acquire Digg On July 22, 2008, Tech Crunch reported that Google was in final negotiations to buy Digg, an online community site where users post and rank articles, blogs, and other media. The acquisition price was reportedly "around $200 Million."5 The sale never went through because Google reportedly decided not to go through with the sale.

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