1997 – Google.com Registered • 1998 – Google is Incorporated and Rents Susan Wojcicki's Garage • $1700, Hot Tub Use, Raid the Fridge • 1998 – End of year 60million pages in Index (52 billion now) • 1999 – Susan joins Google as Marketing Manager! (Result! – $410m good reasons ) – CEO Youtube now • 1999 – “Yoshka” first dog to come to Work • 2000 – Adwords Launched • 2004 – IPO, Raises $1.67B value of $23B (Yahoo! Made money as had 2.7million shares??) • 2006 – Google buys Garage and House for about $1.1Million • 2007 – Anne Marries Sergey ;-) (Divorced 2015)
(sells it in 2014 Lenovo) • 2013 – Google buys WAZE for $966m • 2016 – Google Employs 57, 100 people! • 2016 – Google worth $133B • 1999 $0 rev and 100k investment • 2017: HTC announced a “cooperation agreement” in which it would sell non-exclusive rights to certain intellectual property, as well as smartphone talent, to Google for $1.1 billion 2000: A BIDDABLE MEDIA BEHEMOTH WAS BORN
buying or licensing Google's technology in 1998 • In 1998, Google's two young co-founders approached Yahoo when they were making the rounds for backing in Silicon Valley. • That opened the door to an investment, licensing deal or an outright acquisition of the duo's technology. • But Yahoo (and other major players) weren't interested. • Not buying Google in 2002! • Yahoo had the opportunity to purchase Google for $5bn in 2002. • They didn't, and the rest is history!
has never seen before! • If you search for “askew” in Google results will tilt to the right • Google handles over 2 trillion searches per year. That's about 270 searches per person on Earth. • Google intends to scan all known existing 129 million unique books before 2020! • Google hired a camel to create the Street View of a desert • The "I'm feeling lucky“ button costs GoogleUS $110 million per year, as it bypasses all ads. • Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road. • If you search for "atari breakout" in Google Images, you can play the game • On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40% • The domain GoogleSucks.com is owned by Google • A single Google search requires more computing power than it took to send Apollo 11 to the Moon • Google Maps calculates traffic by tracking how fast Android devices are moving on the road. • Each year, Google receives more than two million job applications from around the world. • In 1998, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos became an early investor in Google. He invested $250,000, which was worth about $2.2 billion today. Ref: http://www.factslides.com/s-Google#