Google's history of 10 years

September 7, Google will usher in 10th birthday. Over the past decade, Google has to be proud history.

0,1998: garage business - hard to come
September 7, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin from using Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim of 100,000 U.S. dollars to set up a Google company. The two Stanford graduates in remote parts of the Menlo Park in a garage started the first step in Google, where they spent six months.

You do not know: At that time, Google's first data center was born in less than 6 to rent a small house in the square.

Number of employees: less than 10

1,1999: met for the wind - lucky day
In AltaVista, Excite, Lycos and Yahoo leading the days of the Internet search, Google actually has 25 million U.S. dollars of investment in the wind, but investors returned to the Google 1 billion dollars in valuation. With the money, Google's office from the garage moved out of that, in Palo Alto (Palo Alto) near urban areas for the months of office space.

You do not know: Google the most primitive Logo exclamation point to a "!" At the end;

Number of employees: fewer than 50 people

2,2000: the creation of new words AdWords - boldly days
2003, Google has solicited more than 1 billion pages to become the largest search engine. In June, Yahoo and Google signed an agreement for four years provided by Google's search services. From the post of view, this Yahoo, a move is essential to decide the fate of the Yahoo today. Moreover, Yahoo until 2002 before large-scale investment of its own search technology. In September, Google released AdWords, an epoch-making in the search results to sell text ads.

You do not know: At that time, Google and Palm on cooperation in the search launched mobile phone services

Number of employees: less than 150 people

3,: Schmidt as CEO - the days of adult supervision
August 2001, Eric Schmidt alternative co-founder Larry Page • become CEO of Google. Schmidt done for four years Novell's CEO, before that, he was Sun Microsystems chief technology officer. Then, Google first started profits.

You do not know: Google has released spelling checker

Revenue: 86.4 million U.S. dollars

Profit: 6.99 million U.S. dollars

Number of employees: about 250

4,2002 years: AOL choose cooperation with Google - the king of search time
In a large number of companies from the Internet bubble burst and a lot of close case, Google remains the brightest spot of rapid growth. America Online AOL Time Warner Chief Operating Officer Bob Pittman (below) referred to Google as "the most powerful search of the King" and the company chose to give up Overture with Google. At the same time, Google launched new version of AdWords, allows advertisers to place ads on the keyword bid, as Google will bring more revenue.

You do not know: Yes, Yahoo Google's search Logo from its own home page removed

Revenue: 439 million U.S. dollars

Profit: 9.9 million U.S. dollars

Revenue growth: 409%

Number of employees: about 500

5,2003: launched AdSense
AdWords to see introduced in the enormous success of, Google in June 2003 to third-party site launched AdSense. When Google AdSense in celebration of the time (below), to be listed on the Google Man Tianfei rumors, but analysts valuation of 25 billion U.S. dollars.

You do not know: Microsoft crowded at the time of the break to head into the search market, Google acquisition rumors to

Revenue: 1.47 billion U.S. dollars

Profit: 106 million U.S. dollars

Revenue growth: 234%

Number of employees: about 1,300

6,2004: the successful listing - a dream come true days
August 19, 2004, Google successfully listed on the Nasdaq, or 85 U.S. dollars. By the end of 2004, Google shares have soared to 195 U.S. dollars. Is in, Google introduced Gmail, Orkut social networking sites and comparison-shopping site Froogle.

You do not know: CEO Eric Schmidt provisions in the agreement each meeting seven minutes later, said the classroom is that many universities are doing so.

Revenue: 3.19 billion U.S. dollars

Profit: 399 million U.S. dollars

Revenue growth: 118%

Number of employees: 3,021 people

7,2005: Microsoft's challenge began - a long hard day wings
With Google's powerful, Microsoft and Yahoo began facing the challenge. Google's personalized homepage and directly compete with Yahoo and MSN. Moreover, the Wa Zou Kai-fu Lee (below) and the thin Gong Tang and Microsoft is a big news then.

You do not know: about 1 / 4 of Google employees outside the U.S.

Revenue: 6.14 billion U.S. dollars

Profit: 1.47 billion U.S. dollars

Revenue growth rate: 92.5%

Number of employees: 5,680 people

8,2006: acquisition of YouTube - enter the video days
In order to expand its search advertising platform, Google to 1.65 billion U.S. dollars bought only 18 months of video website YouTube. The map YouTube co-founder Steve (Steven Chen) and Chad Hurley • (Chad Hurley). The same year, Google and News Corp's social site MySpace signed a three-year total 900 million U.S. dollars advertising agreement.

You do not know: Google was the Oxford Dictionary and Merriam-Webster included a verb:

Revenue: 10.6 billion U.S. dollars

Profit: 3.08 billion U.S. dollars

Revenue growth rate: 72.8%

Number of employees: 10,674

9,2007: the workplace as the best - designed glory days
2007, Google wealth ranking best workplace companies, and stock prices into the 741 U.S. dollars. However, even so, many senior-level figures from Google Google, AdSense executives, including ancient Gokul Rajaram from Google's own business, AdWords-president of sales Seoul Sheryl Sandberg Service to the Facebook, there are many other heavyweight executives to the Facebook.

You do not know: Google to amend its security system to allow the use of anonymous after 18 months of user search data.

Revenue: 16.6 billion U.S. dollars

Profit: 4.2 billion U.S. dollars

Revenue growth rate: 56.5%

Number of employees: 16,805 people

10,2008: Microsoft's attack - the aggressive days
2008, Google has given Microsoft a lot of boxing combinations in mind: Google to 3.1 billion U.S. dollars to buy DoubleClick, DoubleClick and Microsoft also want; Google and Yahoo to reach agreement, Microsoft and Yahoo is desired; Google launched its own Chrome browser against Microsoft's IE; also launch its own mobile phone platform Android against Microsoft operating system Windows Mobile. However, Google's shares than the highest point in 2007 decreased by 40%.

You do not know: Google's revenue outside the United States will for the first time over local revenue

Half-yearly revenue: 10.6 billion U.S. dollars

Half-yearly profit: 2.56 billion U.S. dollars

Estimated revenue growth: 39% (Thomson Financial data)

Number of employees: 19,604 (June 30 data)