Eric
Schmidt, Chairman of the
Executive Committee and Chief
Executive
Officer
named as Television International
Magazine, Person of the Week
382008,
and throughout the month of
September
2008.
•
• As
Google
grows to a world class power
house, so has Google CEO Eric
Schmidt. He has now joined Apple
Computer's board of directors,
the companies said this
week.
•
• The
move brings the total population
of the board up to eight,
including former Vice President
Al Gore--and of course Apple's
iconic CEO Steve
Jobs.
•
• Schmidt's
appointment was seen by many
bloggers as a strategic move
against a mutual foe: Microsoft.
But some were wondering whether a
closer partnership between the
two companies will just create
another giant to deal
with.
•
• Blog
community
response:
"No one
can outspend Microsoft, but one
can outsmart them. An
Apple-Google informal alliance is
one way of taking on Microsoft
and its
coterie.
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•
2002
- May-June - Google and AOL announce a
search services and syndicated advertising
agreement to provide results to AOL's 34
million members and millions of visitors
to AOL.com. Google launches Google Labs
(http://labs.google.com), where users can
play with Google's latest search
technologies while they're still in the
early stages of development. Google also
reveals several new enhancements to its
popular Google Toolbar software, including
an Experimental Features page (linked from
the bottom of the Google Toolbar options
page) that offers the latest search tools
developed by the Google Toolbar team.
Seven new Google Toolbar interface
languages are introduced, including
traditional and simplified Chinese,
Catalan, Polish, Swedish, Russian, and
Romanian. With the addition of these
languages, the Google Toolbar is now
available in 20 interface languages. •
2002
- Google continues its international
expansion, opening an office in Paris to
complement its existing international
offices in London, Toronto, Hamburg and
Tokyo. Google announces the winner of the
2002 Google Programming Contest, its
first. The $10,000 prize goes to Daniel
Egnor of New York, who created a
geographic search program that enables
users to search for web pages within a
specified geographic area. •
2002
- July - August - Google and Ask
Jeeves announce a syndicated advertising
agreement to provide Google ads on Ask.com
properties. An agreement is signed with
InfoSpace.com to provide Google
advertising and search results on
InfoSpace.com and its properties including
Dogpile, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler, and
Excite, among others. And a syndicated
advertising and search services agreement
is inked with AT&T for its AT&T
WorldNet service. The Google Index
increases in size to nearly 2.5 billion
web pages. Google adds former Sun
Microsystems executive George Reyes to its
management team as Chief Financial
Officer. Google hosts its first
GoogleDance at the Googleplex,
entertaining more than 500 attendees from
the Search Engine Strategies conference in
San Jose, Calif., with food, drink, music,
and lively conversation. •
2002
- September - October - Google takes
its self-service advertising program to a
global audience, launching the Google
AdWords service in the United Kingdom,
Germany, France, and Japan. Google
announces the GB-5005, a midrange Google
Search Appliance that complements the
existing GB-1001 and GB-8008, launched in
February, 2002. Google also introduces an
updated beta version of its Google News
product, bringing to market the first-ever
news service compiled solely by computer
algorithms without human intervention.
Google News crawls approximately 4,000
online news sources continuously
throughout the day. •
2002
- Google continues its international
expansion, launching Bosnia and Sinhalese
(Sri Lanka) language interfaces and its
Google.ie Irish site, offering both
English and Gaelic. Google makes available
16 new versions of the Google Toolbar,
including Czech, Elmer Fudd, Farsi,
Hebrew, Slovak, and Thai. Google receives
the IDGNow! "Best Search Engine" Internet
Award and the San Francisco Business
Times' "Crowd Pleaser" HotTech Award.
Google remembers to celebrate its fourth
birthday with a special home page logo
created by assistant webmaster Dennis
Hwang. •
2002
- November - December - Google
introduces a beta version of Froogle, a
product search engine that enables users
to search for millions of products across
the web. Google further expands by
introducing sites in Australia, Finland,
Greece, Singapore, United Arab Emirates,
Poland, and Thailand, bringing to 40 the
number of its international domains.
Google expands the size of its web index
to more than 4 billion web documents.
Yahoo! Japan joins Google's global
advertising syndication network. Google
releases its second annual Year-End Google
Zeitgeist, highlighting search trends and
patterns that mirror the key social and
news events of 2002 •
2003
- January - February - Google acquires
Pyra Labs, creator of web self-publishing
tool Blogger. International expansion
continues, adding Google Paraguay and
Google Puerto Rico domains to the list of
available countries. Google releases two
new Google Labs experiments &endash;
Google Viewer, which enables a surfer to
view search results as a scrolling slide
show, and Google WebQuotes, which
incorporates quotes taken from other sites
to provide third party commentary on
search results. Google introduces its
advertising programs in Italy and opens a
sales office in Milan. Interbrand, an
international branding consultancy, names
Google the 2002 Brand of the Year. Wired
magazine awards its 4th Annual Wired Rave
"Business People of the Year" Award to
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, and CEO Eric Schmidt. •
2003
- March - April - Google surpasses
100,000 active advertisers in its Google
AdWords program. Google announces its new
content-targeted advertising program and
the acquisition of Applied Semantics, to
strengthen and enhance the program's
underlying technology. Support for two new
languages, Xhosa and Zulu, and 12 new
international domains are added to bring
the total available to 63 domains and 88
languages. New customers are announced
including Amazon.com and Walt Disney
Internet Group properties. Google Labs
adds Google Compute, a toolbar feature
that donates a computer's idle time to
scientific research. Google introduces its
advertising programs in Australia and
opens a sales office in Sydney. •
2003
- May - June - Google AdSense, a
program designed to maximize the revenue
potential of a website by serving highly
relevant ads specific to the content of
the page, launches with initial partners,
including ABC.com, HowStuffWorks, Internet
Broadcasting Systems, Inc., Lycos Europe,
Knight Ridder Digital, About.com, CNET and
others. Google and MapQuest sign an
agreement to display Google's sponsored
links on MapQuest maps and directions
pages. Google wins the Webby People's
Voice Award for Technical Achievement.
BtoB Magazine names Google the No. 3 top
business-to-business advertising property.
Google News wins a Webby Award in the News
category and is expanded to local versions
for English-language domains, including
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, U.K. and
India. Version 2.0 of the Google Toolbar
is released and includes new functions
such as a pop-up blocker and autofill,
which can automatically fill in the fields
of a form with a user's information.
Google introduces its advertising program
in the Benelux region and opens a sales
office in Amsterdam. •
2003
- July - August - Google announces
additional customers of the Google Search
Appliance, including Xerox, Pfizer, the
U.S. Army, Procter & Gamble, Nextel
Communications, Hitachi Data Systems and
others. Google launches new international
domains including Denmark, Azerbaijan, El
Salvador, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, India, Malaysia and Libya,
bringing the total of Google's worldwide
sites to 82. Google signs online weather
site, weather.com, as a partner for its
web search, AdWords and AdSense programs.
A calculator function is launched,
enabling users to solve mathematic
problems by entering numeric expressions
into the google.com or the Google Toolbar
search boxes. The new version of the
Google Toolbar that includes a pop-up
blocker and form autofill, originally
introduced in June 2003, is launched out
of beta. Google News launches in German
and French, the first non-English language
versions of the news service. •
2003
- September - October - Google
Glossary is launched, enabling users to
use the Google.com search field to
retrieve definitions that Google has found
on the Internet for a specific term or
concept. Additionally, two new projects
are made available on Google Labs
&endash; Search by Location, which
enables users to find information by
geographic location, and Google News
Alerts, an automatic news alert system
that notifies subscribers via e-mail about
the latest Google News listings related to
a specified subject. Google introduces
enhancements to its AdWords service,
including a conversion tracking tool and
expanded match technology. Google
continues its growth internationally,
opening a new sales office in Madrid and
introducing a beta version of Google News
in Spanish •
2003
- November - December - The Google
Deskbar, a free software download which
enables users to search Google without
using a web browser, is introduced on
Google Labs. Google celebrates the 100th
anniversary of flight with a special
'Wright Flyer' logo on its homepage. A new
layout is unveiled for Froogle, Google's
product search engine (beta) that enables
users to search for millions of products
across the web. Several new features are
made available to Google AdWords users
including a visual click-through rate
indicator and a refined billing summary
page. Slovakia is the latest domain to
join the growing list of Google
international domains. Several new search
features are launched on Google.com that
enable users to search for flight
information, track USPS, UPS or Federal
Express packages, and look up area codes
and VIN information. •
2004
- January - February - Brandchannel
again names Google" Brand of the Year," as
the site's index increases to 4.28 billion
web pages. ABC News marks the occasion by
naming Larry and Sergey "Persons of the
Week." Google consolidates much of its
Mountain View operations into a new
headquarters building. •
2004
- March - April - Google introduces
personalized search on Google Labs,
enabling users to specify their interests
and to adjust the level of customization
in their search results, based on that
profile. On April 1, Google posts plans to
open a research facility on the Moon and
announces a new web-based mail service
called Gmail that will include a gigabyte
of free storage for each user. The service
also includes a powerful search engine to
locate and retrieve messages, which are
displayed in a "conversation view" that
chronologically arranges all emails sent
or received with the same subject line.
Gmail also includes relevant advertising
delivered with the same technology that
scans web pages as part of the AdSense
service. The AdWords program itself is
enhanced with the addition of local search
targeting capability, enabling advertisers
to specify a geographic range for delivery
of their ads. •
2004
-•
2006
- Profits nearly double in
3Q 3rd quarter profit that
catapulted 92%, handily beating
expectations as users increasingly clicked
on advertisements. See Bay Area Stocks
& Earnings Timeline
•
2006
- Google To Run HQ On Solar Power •
2006
- Oct. 9 - Google buys YouTube for
$1.65bn Google is buying
video-sharing website for $1.65bn in
shares. The companies will continue to
operate independently •
2006
- Oct. 6 - Google In Talks To Acquire
YouTube •
2006
- Jul. 20 -2Q earnings soar past
expectations The company earned
$721.1 million, or $2.33 per share.
Comapre to the net income of $342.8
million last year •
2006
- Jun. 7 - Google goes to Congress •
2006
- Apr. 20 - Quarter profit soars •
2006
- Mar. 23 - Google Will Be Added To
S&P 500 •
2006
- Jan. 31 - Profits Nearly Double, Off
Analyst Target •
2006
- Jan 1 - Google Opens Doors Of Online
Video •
2007
- Jan. 6 - Google Opens Doors Of
Online WiFi. •
2008
- Jan. 6 - Google Opens Doors Of
Online Wireless gPhones
EDITORS
NOTE
/ Schmidt speaks out. •••
"The
Internet is democratizing knowledge,"
Schmidt said. "But it's also like a child,
testing its powers for the first time.
Governments are struggling to work out
what to do about it, and they have
concerns, such as over
privacy."
•••
Restrictions
may be tempting, but they aren't likely to
quell the tidal wave of online
information, he
said.
•••
"My
advice is, don't bet against it. Again and
again, people forget that the Internet is
pervasive and they try and hold back
information when the Internet makes
everything available," Schmidt
warned
•••
Schmidt
told the audience that Google even proved
to be a life-saver to one person. "He
typed his symptoms into Google, and got a
message back that said, 'You are having a
heart attack. Call the emergency services
now.' That's why we tell our employees
that it's important that Google is fast.
Otherwise people
die."
•••
Google's
CEO also insisted that "the Internet can,
and I hope will, be a revolutionary force
in repressive societies." Earlier this
year, Google was widely attacked for
censoring the search results it supplies
to its Chinese users, but it has also
refused to hand over data on searches to
the U.S.
authorities.
•••
But
Schmidt won his biggest reaction from the
audience when he made a joke about
blogging. "Most blogs have precisely one
reader -- the blogger
themselves.".
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