Timeline for Google

• 1995- Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet while Sergey is assigned to show Larry around Stanford.
• 1996- Larry and Sergey, collaborate on a search engine off of the university server called BackRub. A little after one year, BackRub used up too much bandwidth allowed from the university.
• 1997- Larry and Sergey come up with the name Google. A variation of the word “googol”, a math term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
• 1998, August- Andy Bechtosheim, writes a check for $100,000 to Google Inc. which doesn’t exist yet.
• 1998 September- Google sets up work in Susan Wojcicki’s garage.
• 1999 Febuary- Google grows out of the garage and into an office in Palo Alto with 8 employees.
• 2000 May- Google sets up first version with 10 languages available.
• 2001 July-  Google launches Google Image, offering over 250 million images
• 2002 September- Google new launches with 4000 news sources.
• 2006 September- Google Earth is developed from the UN Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, the Jane Goodall Institute, and the National Park Service.