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Larry Page Birth
On March 26th,1973 Larry Page (the creator of google) was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. -
Sergery Brin Birth
Sergery Brin was born on August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia -
University for Sergey
Sergey Brin attended the University of Maryland, College Park to study computer science and mathematics and received his Bachelor of Science degree in May 1993 with honors -
University for Larry
Larry Page attended the University of Michigan to study computer engineering and received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors. -
Larry and Sergey meet
In 1995, Sergey Brin and Larry Page meet at Stamford University in Palo Alto, California, to study for their Phd's. -
Google Search Engine
In 1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborate on their 'BackRub' search engine using back links in their search engine design.Larry Page and Sergey Brin produce a paper, "Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," became the basis for the Google search engine.They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term "Googol," -
Project time
In March 1996, Sergey Brin and Larry Page begin a research project working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The aim of the project was to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library. -
First version of goolge is released
The first version of Google is released on the Stanford Web. The address: google.stanford.edu. -
Google got its name
In 1997 Google.com was registered as a domain name . -
Attempt to sell Goolge goes wrong
Larry Page and Sergey Brin try to sell Google through the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). They are unsuccessful, nobody was interested in buying their serach engine and they gave up the idea of selling Google. -
Company gets started thanks to Andy
Andy Bechtolsheim, a founder of Sun Microsystems, watched the demo for Google (which was getting more than 10,000 queries per day) and wrote a $100,000 check to get the company started. -
Google becomes official "don't be evil"
Google became an official corporation. The company's mission statement was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" and the company's unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil" -
First office opens
Google opened its first office in Palo Alto and later moved to Bayshore Drive in nearby Mountain View -
google recieves additional ventures
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in partnership with Sequoia Capital, provide Google with additional venture capital of $25 million. -
Concentration of company
Sergey Brin and Larry Page drop out of the Stanford graduate studies program to concentrate on their company -
foreign languages released
Foreign language Versions of Google.com were released in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean -
new team member added to google
Eric Schmidt joined Google as its first chairman and later became its chief executive officer. Larry Page became president of products and Sergey Brin became president of technology -
New service is launched
Google News service is launched in 2002 -
moving day
Google moved to its new Mountain View campus which was nicknamed Googleplex. -
Prize time!
Sergey Brin and Larry Page were honored with the Marconi Prize -
second stock offer
During the year of 2005, Google raised $4.2 billion through its second stock offering -
New releases
During the year 2005, Google Maps, Google Earth, and iGoogle were released -
Youtube is purchased
In 2006, Google ends up purchasing youtube -
Just Married
Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki were married in the Bahamas and Larry Page and Lucinda Southworth were married on Necker Island in the Caribbean. -
Gmail becomes public
Gmail became available to the general public on February 7th, 2007. -
New launches
Google Health became available. Google launched Chrome, its first Web browser . September 2008: T-Mobile released the G1, the first Android-based phone. -
Larry and Sergey annnounced most powerful people
November 2009 - Forbes magazine decided Sergey Brin and Larry Page were the fifth most powerful people in the world -
Nexus 1 released
January 5, 2010, Google released an Android phone under its own company name called the Nexus One -
New positions
Co-founder Larry Page takes over the role of CEO in April 2011. Eric Schmidt becomes Executive Chairman. -
Success Continues
Still today, Larry Page and Sergey Brin have created a VERY successful tool that is beneficial in many ways to everybody and will continue to be for a very long time. Goolge continues to be a hige success.
