Google 10th birthday timeline

As Google celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend, Web User wishes Happy Birthday to Google and takes a look at some of the significant events in the search company's history.

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It's hard to believe that it was just 10 years ago that the Google search engine first hit the web, such is the company's dominance of the internet now.

Here Web User takes a look at some of the significant events in the search company's history.

1995 - Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin meet at Stanford University.

January 1996 - Page and Brin begin work on the BackRub search engine.

15 September 1997 - Google.com domain name registered.

7 September 1998 - The first incarnation of the Google search engine is launched.

2000 - The company starts selling keyword-related advertising.

2001 - The Google News service is introduced, inspired by the 11 September attacks on the US. A UK-specific version is added two years later.

2003 - Google moves to its Mountain View campus, where it is still based. It has since become known as the 'Googleplex'.

2004 - Google launches GMail, known as Google Mail in the UK.

19 August 2004 - The company floats on the stock market.

2006 - The verb 'to Google' added to the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time.

October 2006 - Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn (about £880m) in stock options.

November 2007 - Google forms the Open Handset Alliance to work on the Google Android project.

September 2008 - Chrome, Google's first web browser, is launched.

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