[Up: websites] [Robot Wisdom home page]
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
You can submit a new URL or any other suggestion for this page by typing it into the box below. It will instantly become visible to anyone at this comments page. I should get around to checking it out and updating it above within a week or three, at which point I'll delete it from the comments page.
If you want credit, include your name and email (otherwise it's anonymous). You can use HTML but you don't have to.
[Up: websites]
Website-resources:
RobotWisdom.com :
Altavista.com :
Google.com :
Salon.com :
Yahoo.com
Hosting provided by instinct.org. Content may be copied under Open Web Content License.