Some of Google's services I currently use are:
Gmail, Blogger, iGoogle, YouTube, Google News, Google Alerts, Google Maps, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Analytics, Google Reader, Google Groups, Orkut, Picasa Web Albums, Google Talk, and a few others.
Lets look at some of Google's timeline:
1995 - Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin meet at Stanford University
15 September 1997 - Google.com domain name registered
7 September 1998 - The first incarnation of the Google search engine is launched
2000 - Google starts selling keyword-related advertising
2001 - The Google News service is introduced, inspired by the 11 September attacks on the US
2003 - Google moves to its Mountain View campus, where it is still based. It has since become known as the 'Googleplex'
2004 - Google launches GMail
19 August 2004 - Google floats on the stock market
2006 - The verb 'to Google' added to the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time
October 2006 - Google buys YouTube for $1.65 bn in stock options
November 2007 - Google forms the Open Handset Alliance to work on the Google Android project
2 September 2008 - Chrome, Google's first web browser, is launched
6 September 2008 - Google successfully launches GeoEye-1, a super-sharp Earth-imaging high-resolution satellite
Happy Birthday Google!
Google is now responsible for roughly two-thirds of U.S. search traffic.
Let's see what's in store for the world in the next 10 years...
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