a color-coded history of google
's acquisitions and original products
March
Google Finance 21
@Last Software, (SketchUp) 14
Upstartle (Writely) 9
February
Adaptive Path (MeasureMap) 14
January
Google.cn 27
dMarc Broadcasting (automated advertising platform for radio) 17
Google Video Store 9
2005
December
5% of AOL 20
Google Transit 7
November
Google Base 16
Google Analytics 14
October
Google.org 11
September
Google Blog Search 15
August
Google Talk 24
Android Inc. 17
July
Reqwireless (Gmail Mobile) 5
Akwan Information Technologies 20
Invested in Current Communications 8
June
Google Earth 28
Google Video (with videos) 27
Google Sitemaps 2
May
Google Personalized Home 20
Dodgeball 12
Google Web Accelorator 4
April
My Search History 20
Google Q&A 7
Google Definitions 5
March
Google Ride Finder 31
Urchin Software (Google Analytics) 28
February
Google Maps 8
January
Google Video (without video) 25
2004
Where2 (Google Maps)
Zipdash (Google Ride Finder)
December
Google Print (Google Book Search – with scanned library books) 14
Google Suggest 9
October
Keyhole (Google Earth) 27
Google Scholar 18
Google Desktop Search 14
Google SMS 7
Google Print (Google Book Search) 6
July
Picasa 13
June
Invested in Baidu 15
April
Ignite Logic (sets up webpages for law firms) 23
Gmail 1
March
Google Web Alerts 29
Google Personalized Search 29
Google Local 17
January
Orkut 22
2003
October
Sprinks (Google Adwords) 24
Genius Labs (blogging) 7
Kaltix (Google Personal) 1
June
Google Adsense (contextual ads) 18
April
Applied Semantics 23
February
Pyra (Blogger) 15
2002
December
Froogle 12
September
Google News 23
2001
December
Google Zeitgeist 20
Google Web Documents (search results include documents) 11
September
Google Search Appliance (for businesses) 30
Outride (search relevance technology) 20
June
Google Image Search 26 (correct date?)
February
Deja’s Usenet Archive (Google Groups)
2000
December
Google Toolbar 11
October
Google Adwords 23
April
Google Wireless Search 27
Google Global (Google Search goes international) 25
1999
September
Google Scout (finds related pages) 21
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P.S. I really hope Google is working with NASA on a zero-gravity sport and a space elevator.
Sweet Link: The 20 Year Internet Outlook
sources
http://googlepress.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html