In part one of Google is taking over the world, we looked at the birth of Google.   This time we are going to show you Google from the year 2001 to present.

I was looking around on Google maps the other day, wondering how Google could get the pictures of people’s homes that they have.   It’s not your old “sky view” pictures, where you see the roofs of the homes.   It’s a straight on picture of your home.  It’s cool at first, I mean you type in anyone’s address and you can not only see where they live,  you can see their house from all angles, see what cars they drive, parked  in the driveway, hell even see what their dog looks like playing in the front yard.   Thanks to Google, the word “PRIVACY” will soon be in the history books.

2001 – Google purchases their first public acquisition: Deja.com’s Usenet Discussion Service.  It’s an archive of over 500 million Usenet discussions dating back to 1995.  They added search and browse features and then launch it as Google Groups.

Google.com becomes available in 26 different languages.

Google image announces over 250 million images available through Google search engines.

Google opens their first international office, in Tokyo.

Google acquires a partnership with Universo online, making Google the number one search engine for millions of Latin Amercianc

2002 – The first Google hardware is released: it’s a yellow box called the Google Search Appliance that businesses can plug into their computer network to enable search capabilities for their own documents.

Google releases a set of API’s, enabling developers to query more than 2 billion web documents and program in their favorite environment, including Java, Perl and Visual Studio.

Google News Launches with 4000 news sources.

Google launches it’s first Australian office in Sydney.

You can now purchase almost anything with Google’s Products search

2003 -  Google acquires Pyra Labs, the creators of Bloggers.

Google announces a new content-targeted advertising service, enabling publishers large and small to access Google’s vast network of advertisers.  Google then  acquired Applied Semantics, whose technology bolsters the service named AdSense.

2004 – Google launches  orkut  as a way to tap into the sphere of social networking.

Google search index hits a new milestone: 6 billion items, including 4.28 billion web pages and 880 million images.

Google moves to their new Googleples in Mountain View, along with it’s 800 plus employees.

Google Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock takes place on Wall Street on August 18. Opening price: $85 per share.

Google acquires Keyhole, a digital mapping company whose technology will later become Google Earth.

Google opens their Tokyo R&D (research & development) center to attract the best and brightest among Japanese and other Asian engineers.

2005 – Google hits a milestone in Image search: Over 1.1 billion images have been indexed.

Google Maps goes live.

Google acquires Urchin, a web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.

Google Maps now features satellite views and directions.

Goolge launches “My Search History”  in Labs, allowing you to view all the web pages you’ve visited and Google searches you’ve made over time.

Google Mobile Web Search is released, specially formulated for viewing search results on mobile phones.

Google unveils Google Earth: a satellite imagery-based mapping service combining 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capabilities and Google search.

Google’s API for Maps is released; developers can embed Google Maps on many kinds of mapping services and sites.

2006 thru 2009 -   Google announces it’s acquisition of YouTube.com in 2006.

Google opens Gmail up to the general public in 2007.  Before it was only available through invetation.

YouTube becomes available in nine more domains: Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the U.K.

Google announces a partnership with Salesforce.com, combining that company’s on-demand CRM applications with AdWords

Sky launches inside Google Earth, including layers for constellation information and virtual tours of galaxies.

Google partners with IBM on a supercomputing initiative so that students can learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.

The Queen of England launches The Royal Channel on YouTube. She is the first monarch to establish a video presence this way.

A new version of Google Earth launches, incorporating Street View and 12 more languages. At the same time, KML 2.2, which began as the Google Earth file format, is accepted as an official Open Geospacial Consortium standard.

With IPv4 addresses (the numbers that computers use to connect to the Internet) running low, Google search becomes available over IPv6, a new IP address space large enough to assign almost three billion networks to every person on the planet. Vint Cerf is a key proponent of broad and immediate adoption of IPv6.

With the launch of Google Site Search, site owners can enable Google-powered searches on their own websites.

A new version of Maps for Mobile debuts, putting Google Transit directions on phones 100 cities worldwide.

Google’s indexing system for processing links indicates that it now counts 1 trillion unique URLs (and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day).

Google gets involved with the U.S. political process at the presidential nominating conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties.

Google introduces Google Earth for the iPhone and iPod touch, complete with photos, geo-located Wikipedia articles, and the ability to tilt your phone to view 3D terrain.

Street View coverage more than doubles in the United States, including several states never before seen on Street View (Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota).

The Vatican launches a YouTube Channel, providing updates from the Pope and Catholic Church.

Google  introduces  Google Latitude, a Google Maps for mobile feature and an iGoogle gadget that lets you share your location with friends and see the approximate location of people who have decided to share their location with you.

Google’s first message on Twitter gets back to binary: I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010. (Hint: it’s a button on our homepage.)

With Google buying up everything they can and launching new programs and updating old ones.   It is scary to think of were they will be in the next 15 years.   Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy a lot of Google’s features.  Like the Google ads on our site, through Google’s adsense.   The two things that are scary as hell to me, are how good Google Maps is, along with a new Google visual search engine that is coming up.    But I’ll talk about that and the death of privacy in the final part to this article.

Source:

wikipedia.org