Inspired by the vast number of links between pages and how their search engine would only become more accurate and useful as the web continued to grow, Page and Brin renamed their company after the mathematical term googol a one followed by zeroes. Schmidt stayed in this position for 10 years, seeing the search giant through its IPO, the acquisition of YouTube, and the introduction of products like Google Docs and Gmail. In , he moved on to the role of executive chairman , and Page became CEO.
The early s would prove to be big and defining years for Google. Long before Google became a verb, Yahoo was the premier internet search engine. Google went on to launch Google News later that year, a content aggregation service that would change how digital media was published and distributed on the web. On April 1st, , Gmail launched to the public with 1GB of storage and advanced search capabilities, dwarfing the limitations imposed by popular competing email products of the time, many of which offered just a few megabytes of storage.
It was not. Today, the company is now well on its way to becoming a trillion-dollar company. The web-only renders provide step-by-step directions and zoomable maps with a smattering of businesses like hotels available to search. While Google had offered a Chinese language version of its website for users in China since September , that service was based in California and was subject to blockades and firewall slowdowns.
In , Google launched a subsidiary based in China to more effectively compete with its local alternative, Baidu. Results were heavily censored with a disclaimer on top. Google established itself back in as a dominant force in web advertising with the launch of AdWords. With DoubleClick, which specialized in display ads and ran its own exchange, Google further expanded its pervasive ad empire across the internet. Google hired several Mozilla Firefox developers, and together, they made Chrome for Windows , which later came to other operating systems.
It was still a beta version, but it already had sandboxed tabs for faster and more stable browsing. Google made a page comic explaining how Chrome worked to go along with the announcement. The early days of Android were dominated by a lot of weird experiments.
Enter the Nexus One. It was built by HTC but designed by Google to be the ultimate showcase for what an Android device could be. At the start of , Google discovered a sophisticated phishing attack in China on its infrastructure aimed at extracting the email addresses and personal info of Chinese human rights activists. The attack prompted Google to switch gears on how it was operating in China, even while knowing what a risky move it would be.
Soon after, Beijing banned Google from China. Oracle kicked off what would become an eight-plus-year and still unfinished lawsuit over Android that many fear could have disastrous implications for all software developers if Google were to lose. Without the ability to freely remake APIs, advocates like the Electronic Frontier Foundation are concerned that hardware and software development will be stifled.
Now, eight years later, Oracle currently stands as the victor while Google attempts to appeal to the Supreme Court. In , Google rolled out a far different kind of product : a fleet of seven Toyota Priuses. That effort would morph and evolve over the coming years and eventually become a standalone business known as Waymo.
After launching a browser, Google set its sights on developing a whole operating system. Chrome OS was an open-source system designed mainly for hosting web apps and running on netbooks, now known as Chromebooks. At first, Google released its source code and then gave demos of the new OS. By June , the first Chromebooks made by Acer and Samsung became available in retail stores. The network never really caught on, despite years of redesigns.
Assembled in the United States, the Moto X offered an unheard-of level of customization and personalization options and intuitive software. By the time the second-gen Moto X was announced in , Google had already agreed to offload Motorola to Lenovo for a price that was billions lower than it had originally paid.
And we all still miss Moto Maker to this day. The most famous product is Google Glass, a wearable computer that augmented information into your periphery and recorded videos and photos. The device became available to developers and a limited group of waitlisted customers, but not before it was criticized as a potential privacy risk as several businesses began banning Glass-wearers from entering the premises.
ATAP would go on to build other notable projects including the Jacquard smart jacket and now-defunct Ara modular smartphone , while X span out as its own subsidiary that worked on moonshot projects.
US Markets Loading H M S In the news. Kif Leswing. Google is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its search engine launching on Thursday.
It's changed a lot in 20 years. For a peek at what Google's search results looked like back then, search "Google in Google Search was the first product from the tech giant now known as part of Alphabet, and Google's been celebrating the milestone all week on social media: —Google Google September 27, The company's official birthday is September 27, , which is when Google first launched its webpage.
Thankfully, the search page has stayed relatively minimal. Here is what Google looked like when it first launched:. Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know. Additional comments. Email optional. Receive a selection of our best stories daily based on your reading preferences. Deal icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt.
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