The

Story

Key People

Eric Scmidt (Chairman & CEO)

Larry Page (Founder, Technology President)

Sergey Brin (Founder, Products President)

1995

Stanford University

1996

SEARCH ENGINE(Backrub)

PageRank

1997

Backrub(g-o-o-g-o-l)

1998

Source: http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

Garage(Monlo Park) Googleplex (Mountain View, California)

2000Companies were able to easily advertise online

2001

• United states• Canada

• Australia• China• India• Japan• South Korea• Singapore• Taiwan

• Czech Republic

• Denmark• Finland• France• Germany• Greece• Hungary• Ireland• Italy

• Netherlands• Norway• Poland• Portugal• Russia• Spain• Sweden• Switzerland• United

Kingdom

• Argentina• Brazil• Mexico• Egypt• Israel• Turkey• UAE

Google offices

2002

Krishna Bharat

News aggregator from over 4000 online news sources

2003

Through AdSense, customers could earn revenue by placing Google ads on their website

Enters the content aggregation/publication market

2004

IPO (August 19)

Source:http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:GOOG

2005

Personalized web portal

2006

2007-08

Uniqueness of Google

• Free to users• Word of mouth• Best and Brightest

Minds• 20 percent time• Assembles its

computers• Doodles

Challenges

• Big brother

• Click Fraud

• Still at its infancy

• Competition

What Next?

Google Wave Google Chrome OS

Thank You!