{"id":8301,"date":"2023-09-27T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/google-celebrates-25-year-journey-from-dorm-to-internet-dominance-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T06:49:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T06:49:04","slug":"google-celebrates-25-year-journey-from-dorm-to-internet-dominance-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/google-celebrates-25-year-journey-from-dorm-to-internet-dominance-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Google celebrates 25 year journey from dorm to internet dominance | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\nYEAR<\/td>\nEVENT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1995-1996<\/td>\nPage and Brin meet at Stanford University and create a search engine named BackRub.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1998<\/td>\nThe startup, now renamed Google, gets $100,000 in funding from Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n1999<\/td>\nGoogle announces $25 million in funding from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins in its very first press release, and officially announces the term “Googlers” to the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJune 2000<\/td>\nGoogle becomes the default search engine provider for Yahoo, one of the most popular websites at the time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOctober 2000<\/td>\nLaunches AdWords, the online advertising platform that would become core to Google’s business.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2001<\/td>\nEric Schmidt is named Google’s chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nApril 2004<\/td>\nGoogle announces it is testing the release of Gmail, with up to 1GB of storage capacity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAugust 2004<\/td>\nLaunches initial public offering of roughly 19.6 million shares, at an opening price of $85 per share.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFebruary 2005<\/td>\nLaunches Google Maps for desktop.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAugust 2005<\/td>\nAcquires mobile startup Android.
Launches Google Talk instant messaging service.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2006<\/td>\nBuys online video service YouTube for $1.65 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nApril 2007<\/td>\nAnnounces acquisition of web ad supplier DoubleClick for $3.1 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMay 2007<\/td>\nIntroduces universal search that lets users access search results across all content types, like images, videos and news, at once.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSeptember 2008<\/td>\nDebuts first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1 or HTC Dream.
Launches Google Chrome web browser.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 2010<\/td>\nLaunches smartphone, Nexus One, co-developed with HTC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMarch 2010<\/td>\nStops censoring search results in China, leading to its banning in the country.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOctober 2010<\/td>\nGoogle tests out its first self-driving vehicles with a small fleet of Toyota Prius cars in California.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJune 2011<\/td>\nLaunches Google+ social networking service, which was shut down in 2018.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAugust 2011<\/td>\nAnnounces acquisition of Motorola Mobility, which includes Motorola’s cellphone and TV set-top box businesses, for $12.5 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2012<\/td>\nLaunches Google Glass.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2013<\/td>\nAnnounces acquisition of Israeli mapping startup Waze for about $1 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2014<\/td>\nAnnounces in January that it will acquire AI firm DeepMind.
In the same month, announces a $3.2 billion deal to buy smart thermostat and smoke alarm maker Nest Labs.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2015<\/td>\nAnnounces plans to create a new publicly listed company, Alphabet, which will house Google and other units, including YouTube and research and venture capital businesses. Sundar Pichai named CEO of Google.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nOctober 2016<\/td>\nLaunches the first Pixel smartphone.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nNovember 2016<\/td>\nLaunches Google Home smart speaker.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJune 2017<\/td>\nThe European Commission fines Google 2.42 billion euros for violating the neutrality of its search.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFebruary 2018<\/td>\nGoogle reports full-year sales of over $100 billion a year for the first time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJuly 2018<\/td>\nThe European Commission fines Google 4.34 billion euros for anti-competitive practices with respect to its Android operating system.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMarch 2019<\/td>\nThe European Commission imposes a 1.49 billion euros fine for anti-competitive practices with respect to the company’s online advertising business.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJune 2019<\/td>\nGoogle announces acquisition of analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nNovember 2019<\/td>\nAnnounces acquisition of Fitbit for $2.1 billion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDecember 2019<\/td>\nCo-founders Page and Brin announce they are stepping down as CEO and president, respectively; Pichai becomes CEO of Alphabet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2020<\/td>\nAlphabet hits $1 trillion in market capitalization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJanuary 2023<\/td>\nThe company cuts 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFebruary 2023<\/td>\nGoogle announces Bard, a generative AI-powered chatbot that can produce text content and fetch information off the internet. However, a factual error in the AI tool’s demo tanks Alphabet shares, erasing $100 billion from the company’s market capitalization.
Susan Wojcicki, one of Google’s first employees, steps down as YouTube CEO; Neal Mohan replaces her.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMarch 2023<\/td>\nBegins rolling out Bard to some users.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/div>\n