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| Larry and Brin |
Am
sure David Filo is still regretting and wishes to go back and change
things, maybe we could be having Google Yahoo combined company wright now as
the Adobe guys when they purchased Dreamweaver or Photoshop from the founders.
It was 1998 when Larry Page and Sergey Brin approached him for a new search engine they have
developed. Actually they were looking for investors but simply Filo their
friend and Yahoo
chairman was not interested. Andy Bechtolsheim Sun co –founder saw the opportunity
and issued a cheque for US$ 100,000 to be pumped in to the project, by the way
Sun letter come to buy the database giants Oracle to form Oracle Sun Microsystems.
Stick
to Google this was the time the company was born, actually it was not the first
engine others used to exist. But Google came on
to revolutionized the way people search things online. It was a complete new
way and new experience to the users. People forgot completely about the past
search engines as the famous quote “something used to exist before
Google but who knows it”.
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| Google Doodle |
Some
of the earliest services of Google were the Google Adwords, it started in the late 2000, and it
was a complete new way of online advertisement. The advertisement were displayed
on the originally advertisement free website, it was the time when the Adwords
was born and it was all over on the internet.
In
2001, there comes the big one the Google Image Search, instead of being able to search for text only Google
gave the ability to the users to search for the images, 250 million photos were
available for search. They manage to add support for some other file format
also.
The
guys in the Google Labs were not sleeping, they have sniffed the success, and
they become more creative and develop new things out of the Google Adwords. It
was the time they come up with Google Adsence and this was in 2003. With Google
Adsence Website operators can earn money through their sites. Webmasters can
put unobtrusive text advertisements from Adwords on their sites and keep a part
of the advertising revenue. Without
forgetting in 2002 is when Goggle News started, Google News launches as a
beta and taps about 4,500 sources. Four years later, an archive will be
developed, using which surfers can search through news up to 200 years old.
In
2004 is when Gmail was
introduced for the first time, the launch of Gmail is mistaken for an April
Fools’ Day prank. The service offers 1 GB of space and a new threaded
interface. Invitations to join the exclusive club command high prices in online
exchanges. This triggered another great thing in the history of
Google. Going public, In August, Google’s going public is an innovation in the
history of the US financial market. Interested buyers can get shares only
through online auctions. Hundreds of employees become millionaires overnight.
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| Satellite View of The Google Earth |
One of the biggest
deals in the history of the Web is the acquisition of YouTube. In October 2006,
Google acquires the largest video platform in the world for US$ 1.65 billion, making its own site Google Video unnecessary. The
acquisition of YouTube it was a massive success to the company which made other
tech companies to realize the existence of the new potential player in the tech
industry.
In
2007 City guide, the Google city guide was the next big thing in that
year, developed from the same idea of Google maps this new idea seems to be
convincing. The next high point in the
project was Street View. Google enhances its maps with photos clicked by a car
with 360-degree cameras on the main streets of big cities. From May onwards,
instead of New York from above, you have the metropolis from a pedestrian’s perspective
as well.
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| Chrome Browser |
Hint:
In 2009, While Android-based handsets were already available when the year started;
the Motorola Droid debuted
in November running Android 2.0 (with turn-by-turn GPS
capabilities) and took on the iPhone in
its "Droid Does" ad campaign. Google also released a flurry of Android-only
applications and
updates to existing ones in 2009 to boost their mobile platform, including the
Google Voice app (which Apple rejected on
the iPhone), the amazingGoogle Goggles app,
Google Maps enhancements, and Google Listen.
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| Google Nexus One |
In
2010 I was shocked Google in the gadget business now? The Google Nexus One appeared Jan. 5 and Google never looked back. The
company launched its Google Buzz social conversation
service the following month as an alternative to Facebook, which in 2010 the
site emerged as the search engine's greatest threat. While Buzz hasn't exactly
caught on with the majority of Google users but still Google was able to
influence with some other products that year.
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| Android 4.0 Ice Cream |
Sandwich
In
2011 I like to call it the year of the cycles since it is in this year the
famous cycle concept of Google plus social
networking site was initially started to be held in people’s mouths.
The G+ was only the product we had Google Music challenge Apple’s iTunes, Android 4.0 (“Ice
Cream Sandwich”) has come as a savior to the Android apps
developers who were complaining about developing apps android apps which were
having compatibility issue with devices but the “ice cream sandwich” has come
to bring the flexibility, the same app you develop can work in both smartphones
and android tablets. Google Wallet for online transactions,
Google Fiber promoting telecom industry and Chrome OS new kid in the street in
the OS streets
In
2012 it is about shutting down some products, 24th April 2012 is
when they launch what am expecting to be
their last product for this year Google Drive until this time. We hpe for more
products to come currently am waiting for the Google Glasses. Let’s the evolution
continues VIVA Google.
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Jumanne Mtambalike (gTech360) is a Software Engineer,IT consultant and Web designer based in Africa, currently living in Dar es Salaam Tanzania
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