Google birthday 21 years old look back on the past years and the origin of the interesting name of the world search tycoon

Google just celebrated its 21st birthday on Friday. Over 21 years of development, Google from a simple startup has grown into a tool that everyone in the world uses when looking for information online and then a giant technology corporation has Influence affects every aspect of everyday life.

Here are memorable milestones through each of Google's development, please follow.

Birth: In December, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, with initial capital of US $ 100,000, created the startup. The name Google is named after "googol", a term in the programming industry that means a number 1 followed by 100 zeros (10 ¹⁰⁰ ). The startup office was later moved to the garage of friend Susan Wojcicki in Menlo Park, California. The founding duo bought the domain name "google.com".

Year 1: In 1999, the company had more than 16 employees and moved to a real office in Palo Alto, California.

Year 2: In 2000, Google quickly became the largest search engine on the planet. The website has been expanded to a dozen other languages ​​including German, French and Italian.

Year 3: In 2001, Google launched Image Search, an image search engine with a database of 250 million images.

Year 4: In 2002, Google News officially appeared to help users read the latest news and articles in the world.

Year 6: In 2004, Google officially became a public company with a stock value of only 85 USD / share. On its 21st birthday, Google stock was priced at $ 1,233 per share. In the same year, Google launched Gmail as a free email service, but it had to be invited to register on April Fool's Day.

Year 7: In 2005, Google Maps officially aired but there were still a few small bugs.

Year 8: In June 2006, the word "Google" officially became an action verb using Google to search for information on the World Wide Web in the Oxford English dictionary.

In the same year, Google acquired YouTube.com for $ 1.65.

Year 9: In 2007, at the launch of Google Street View - a service that allows users to view shops and street views, Google launched its fleet of cameras on the street.

Year 10: In 2008, Google launched Chrome, a minimalistic, super fast web browser.

Year 12: In 2010 Google launched its first mobile phone, the Nexus One, but it was quickly knocked out by Apple's iPhone.

Year 15: In 2013, Google launched a device with transparent glass display everything from messages, videos, and maps called Google Glass. This technology item is very expensive, up to $ 1,500. Unfortunately this product was not well received by the user and was eventually canceled by its creator.

Year 18: In 2016, Google launched Google Home - a smart voice-activated smart speaker to compete with Amazon Alexa.

19: Google is accused by the European Union (EU) of deliberately prioritizing its shopping service in online search results. Google has to pay a fine of $ 2.9 billion.

Year 21: To celebrate its 21st birthday, Google offers a 21% discount on European products.

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2. Google launched Google Go globally, an extremely lightweight version with many useful features, which can replace the Google app