Google Events

1997 Sep 15 Google Search is Launched
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a Ph.D. student at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was “...
1998 Sep 4 Google Is Founded
Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video s...
2001 Jul 28 Google Image Search
2002 Dec 12 Froogle
2009 Apr 20 Google Labs Launches Google News Timeline
Timelines are becoming an increasingly popular user interface. Today, Google Labs launched a new product called Google News Timeline, which lays out the top stories from Google News in co...
2009 Jul 8 Google plans to introduce PC operating system
In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser. The software, called the Goo...
2010 Jan 12 Google Reveals That It Has Been The Victim Of A Cyber-Attack Originating In China
Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corpo...
2010 Jul 6 Google Celebrates Frida Kahlo's Birthday with Google Doodle
If an image of a painting that pops up on a computer screen can be considered a viewing, then Frida Kahlo may be setting a record today for the most glimpses of an artist's self-portrait ...
2011 Aug 15 Google Buys Motorola Mobility
Yesterday (Aug. 15th), Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG) announced that it was acquiring Droid smartphone manufacturer Motorola Motility (NYSE: MMI) for $12.5 billion in cash, or $40 per share. The...
2011 Nov 4 Groupon Offers IPO; Highest Valued Tech Company Since Google
Groupon's initial public offering is on at $20 per share, to give the Chicago daily deals site a valuation of $12.7 billion. That's the highest tech valuation since Google went public ...