Google 10 Year Timeline

Welcome to the interactive timeline of Google history!

Travel through time by dragging the timeline or the slider below. Click on any event to see more information.
1995–1997
- When Larry met Sergey
- New search tool named BackRub
- BackRub search index grows
- Google.com registered as a domain
1998
- Andy Bechtolsheim is first Google investor
- Danny Sullivan’s early review
- Google rents a Silicon Valley garage
- Google incorporates
- Early technical specs detailed
- Employee #1: Craig Silverstein
- Google named Top Search Engine
- First Google Friends Newsletter
- Original homepage prototype
1999 January–June
- Google opens Palo Alto office
- Employee #11: Omid Kordestani
- Google funded by major venture capital firms
- Fish food
- We hit the slopes
- Googler, n.
July–December
- Google moves to new Mountain View offices
- Charlie Ayers hired as first Google chef
- First positive reviews
- Year-end look at Google search trends
- Seafood Friday, n.
- Homepage: “Uncle Sam” added
2000
- Google in 10 languages
- Google wins first Webby Awards
- Yahoo! signs up for Google search
- Search index: 1 billion pages
- Google in Chinese, Japanese, Korean
- First April Fool’s joke
- Google AdWords
- Google Toolbar
- Year-end look at Google search trends
- Homepage: 1 billion items
2001 January–June
- Wayne Rosing hired as Engineering VP
- Deja Usenet acquired
- Eric Schmidt named chairman
- Google in 26 languages
- Meng’s Gallery begins
- Bork, bork, bork!
- FIGS+CJK, n.
- Homepage: Logo centered
July–December
- First international office: Tokyo
- Eric Schmidt named CEO
- First search partnership in Latin America
- Google Image Search
- Search index: 3 billion
- Year-end look at Google search trends
- i18n, abbr.
- Zeitgeist, n.
2002 January–June
- Partnership with AOL
- tlhIngan majQa’!
- Birdbrains
- Google Search Appliance
- AdWords now cost-per-click
- First Google APIs
- Google Labs
July–December
- First Google Dance
- Australia office opens
- Google News
- Froogle
- Year-end look at Google search trends
- Google Dance, n.
- 20% time, n.
- Homepage: Tab for Google News
2003
- Blogger.com acquired
- Linguists recognize the word “google”
- Programmers attend first Code Jam
- Google AdSense
- Google Grants
- Google Print
- Googler headcount: 1,628
- Year-end look at Google search trends
2004 January–March
- Larry named NAE Fellow
- Search index: 6 billion
- Move to new headquarters campus
- Enterprise unit forms
- orkut released
- Google Local
- Microkitchen, n.
- Homepage: Change from tabs to links
April–June
- Filed for IPO
- Fly me to the moon
- Official Google Blog
- Google commuter shuttles
- Googlers buy 10,000 lava lamps
- Scholarships for women engineers
- Gmail
- Caribou, n.
July–October
- Google IPO on NASDAQ
- 100+ Google domains
- European headquarters open in Dublin
- Sergey & Larry named Marconi Fellows
- Engineering offices open in India
- Keyhole acquired
- SMS for mobile
- Google Desktop Search
- Google Scholar
November–December
- Tokyo R&D center
- Google Book Search adds libraries
- Search index: 8 billion
- Googler headcount: 3,021
- Year-end look at Google search trends
2005 January–March
- Urchin acquired
- First Google Code Jam India
- Google Maps
- code.google.com
- Google Image Search: 1.1 billion images
April
- Grasping for straws
- I, Googlebot
- Maps in the U.K.
- More Maps features
- Google Local for mobile
- My Search History
- AdWords Site Targeting
May–August
- Summer of Code
- Blogger Mobile
- Google Scholar for libraries
- iGoogle
- Mobile Web Search
- Google Earth
- Personalized Search
- Maps API
- Machine translation
- Google Talk
September–October
- Welcome, Vint Cerf
- Kai-Fu Lee hired
- Baby Google
- Authors@Google
- Seeing Katrina on Earth
- Google Blog Search
- Google Reader
- Homepage: Google turns 7
November–December
- First Latin America offices
- I’m feeling silly
- Google Analytics
- Google Transit
- Gmail for mobile
- Googler headcount: 5,680
- Year-end look at Google search trends
2006 January–February
- dMarc acquired
- Google in China
- Eric Schmidt named NAE Fellow
- Google.org hires Larry Brilliant
- Code Jam in China
- Picasa in 25 more languages
- Chat with your email
- Google News for mobile
March–April
- Writely acquired
- Searching for love?
- Google Finance
- Google Calendar
- Maps in Europe
May–June
- Testing on the Toilet
- “Google” in the OED
- Google Trends
- Picasa Web Albums
- Mobile tools in 8 more languages
- Gmail in 40 languages
July–August
- Mountain View gets WiFi
- Google Code Jam Europe
- It’s IT
- Live long and Google
- 100 UC libraries join Google Books
- Google Apps for Your Domain
- Free book downloads in Book Search
September–October
- Literacy Project
- YouTube acquired
- JotSpot acquired
- Kittens on our intranet
- Google News Archives
- Google Earth Featured Content
- First Spanish library joins Google Books
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- Moma, n.
November–December
- Doodle 4 Google - United Kingdom
- I’m feeling sleepy
- Patent Search
- Googler headcount: 10,674
- Year-end look at Google search trends
2007 January–February
- China Mobile partnership
- US Presidential candidate visits begin
- Google Maps Australia
- Google Docs in 11 more languages
- Gmail open to everyone
- Google Apps Premier Edition
- Google Maps traffic information
March–April
- Google Code Jam Latin America
- gBikes everywhere
- Seriously, there is a snake
- Our T-Rex under siege
- The @Google Channel
- Google Apps in Africa
- Blogger in 8 more languages
May
- First Michigan office
- Gardening at Google
- Universal Search
- Google Hot Trends
- Street View for Maps
- Google Gears
June
- Partnership with Salesforce.com
- Google stand on Net Neutrality
- New energy initiatives
- Maps on the iPhone
- YouTube in 9 more domains
- Google Earth for nonprofits
- Solar panels on campus: 9,212
- Featured Content in Earth
July–August
- Postini acquired
- Google Privacy Channel
- Google Tech Talks
- YouTube & politics
- Google Finance Canada
- Google Apps in 28 languages
- Google Earth (and Sky)
- Gmail around the world
- Tech Talk, n.
September–October
- Joint supercomputing project with IBM
- Lunar X PRIZE
- Scary fun
- AdSense for Mobile
- Presentations in Google Docs
- Google Reader in 10 more languages
- Google Earth wildfire updates
- Google Docs explained
- Homepage: Google in Arabic
November–December
- Renewable Energy Less Than Coal (RE
- The Queen on YouTube
- OpenSocial
- Android mobile platform
- Googlers love chocolate
- Googler headcount: 16,805
- Year-end look at Google search trends
- Google Toolbar explained
2008 January–March
- Google.org’s new goals
- Google bids on spectrum
- DoubleClick acquired
- OpenSocial Foundation
- Right-to-left language searching
- Google Sites
- Making a New Year doodle
- Gmail explained
- Misc, n.
April
- Google design principles
- April Fool’s goes global
- Google Earth updates
- Website Optimizer
- Google Finance China
- Artists on iGoogle
- Larry and Sergey announce Virgle
May
- Google supports Unicode
- Adopting Internet Protocol v6
- Blog series explores search quality
- Doodle 4 Google - US
- Google Earth and disaster relief
- FriendConnect
- Google Translate in 10 more languages
- We heart Indy and Spidey
- Animating our doodles
June–July
- Code Jam - US
- Google Finance real-time stock quotes
- Google Maps for mobile with transit
- Street View for Tour de France
- iPhone gets Google search
- A 40-language initiative
- Google index: 1 trillion
- Rock, roll, and data
August–September
- Google turns 10
- Google active at U.S. political conventions
- Street View in Asia, Australia
- Google Suggest
- Election tools for citizens
- Google Chrome browser
- New Picasa release
- News Archive Search additions
- First Android-powered phone