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Jorn Barger January 2002


Timeline

1995: Mar: 22yo Sergey Brin and 23yo Larry Page meet [info] [pix]
1996-97: Sergey and Larry create BackRub, the precursor to Google [info]

1998: Mar: first mention on netnews

1998: 07Sep: Google incorporated, three employees, 10k searches/day

1998: 11Nov: [Wayback] [more dates]

mid-1999: eight employees, 500k searches per day; $25M equity funding

1999: Dec: 39 employees, 3M searches per day

2000: adds Dmoz

2000: Jun: 1B pages indexed, 18M searches/day

2000: Dec: 60M searches/day; Google Toolbar

2001: Feb: 100M searches/day; 2660 employees

2001: Feb: Google buys DejaNews archive [cite]

2001: Jun: automatic translation added

2001: Aug: Eric E. Schmidt new CEO; image search

2001: 11Dec: Google adds many older netnews posts [info]

Sources: timeline, history, Gooja timeline


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