We are pleased to announce Magnificent Google's achievement during 2011

Brief history about Google.Inc

1995

• Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about almost everything during this first meeting.

1996

• Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
• BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.

1997

• Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

 

August 1998

• Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes a check for $100,000 to an entity that doesn‘t exist yet: a company called Google Inc.

September

• Google sets up workspace in Susan Wojcicki‘s garage at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park.
• Google files for incorporation in California on September 4. Shortly thereafter, Larry and Sergey open a bank account in the newly-established company‘s name and deposit Andy Bechtolsheim‘s check.
• Larry and Sergey hire Craig Silverstein as their first employee; he‘s a fellow computer science grad student at Stanford.

December

• “PC Magazine” reports that Google “has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results” and recognizes us as the search engine of choice in the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.

February1999

• We outgrow our garage office and move to new digs at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto with just eight employees.

April

• Yoshka, our first “company” dog, comes to work with our senior vice president of operations, Urs Hoelzle.

May

• Omid Kordestani joins to run sales—the first non-engineering hire.

June

• Our first press release announces a $25 million round from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins; John Doerr and Michael Moritz join the board. The release quotes Moritz describing “Googlers” as ”people who use Google”.

August

• We move to our first Mountain View location: 2400 E. Bayshore. Mountain View is a few miles south of Stanford University, and north of the older towns of Silicon Valley: Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose.

November

• Charlie Ayers joins as Google’s first chef. He wins the job in a cook-off judged by the company‘s 40 employees. Previous claim to fame: catering for the Grateful Dead.

 

January 2011

• We announce that co-founder Larry Page will become CEO in April 2011. Eric Schmidt will be Executive Chairman.
• The first episode of the YouTube World View speaker series airs with President Obama answering citizen questions following his State of the Union address.
• In the midst of protests in Egypt, we introduce a service called Speak to Tweet: Dial a phone number, leave your tweet as a voicemail and we’ll publish it for you—meaning anyone can have a voice, even without an Internet connection.

February

• The Google Art Project lets you and explore high res images of more than 1,000 works of art.
• google.com/weddings debuts with custom templates for Sites and Docs so you can organize all the info you need to plan your nuptials.
• Google One Pass lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content, while we handle payment technology with Google Checkout.
• Google Social Search is now more comprehensive, and social results from people you care about are mixed in with your results based on relevance.
• A new search algorithm that affects 11.8% of our queries makes further improvements in search results.

March

• Gridlock begone: Google Maps Navigation now routes you around traffic, so you can spend more time doing and less time waiting.
• Instant Previews come to mobile devices.
• Following the devastating earthquake in Japan, our crisis response team and Tokyo office work overtime to assemble resources to help, including Person Finder and an information page with links to pages where you can donate.
• Google for Nonprofits puts all our tools for nonprofits under one umbrella to help U.S.-based nonprofits make an even bigger difference.
• The @GoogleTalks team uploads its 1000th video to YouTube.
• Kansas City, Kansas will be the first community to benefit from our ultra high-speed broadband network, aimed at providing Internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today.
• The new +1 button lets you publicly give something a “thumbs up,” helping your friends and contacts find the best stuff when they search. +1‘s also help show you useful recommendations on the topics you’re interested in, right when you want them—in your search results.
• We establish two new Google domains in Iraq and Tunisia.
• Personalize your search results by blocking certain unwanted domains from appearing.

April

• We‘re busy this April Fools‘ Day: Gmail motion lets you control Gmail with your body and a new exercise program, Chromercise, promises to deliver the fitter fingers you‘ve always dreamed of.
• We commit up to $100 million in AdWords matching funds to the Startup America Partnership to help jump-start the economy. This same month, we give $12 million in grants to museums in New York, London, California, Chicago and Boston.
• You can now add your local knowledge to the map with Google Map Maker for the U.S.
• Charlie Chaplin’s 122nd birthday is the occasion for our first-ever live-action Google Doodle.
• We invest $168 million in a solar energy power plant in California’s Mojave Desert; sign a power purchase agreement for wind energy in Oklahoma; and invest approximately $100 million in the Shepherds Flat Wind Farm, anticipated to be the largest wind farm in the world.
• A Google a Day is a new daily puzzle that can be solved using your creativity and clever search skills on Google.
• We acquire airline data organization software company ITA.
• AdWords advertisers receive free phone support.
• The world goes crazy over the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and we‘re no exception, airing it live on YouTube.