The Google dozen In this fast-paced digital era 1998 seems to be ages ago. It was in that year that two Stanford university students got together to form a company that would change the face of the Internet, for ever. As Google celebrates 12th birthday, here's a flashback of the 12 most important milestones in the Google story.
In September 1999, Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up an office, like many Silicon Valey startups, in a garage and filed for incorporation and Google Inc was born. By June 2000, the Google search engine had indexed the first billion URLs to become the word's largest search engine.
In July 2001, Google Image Search came into being with an index of 250 million image to search from. This has, by 2010, grown to an index of over 10 billion images.
Google launched Gmail, as an invitation-only beta, on April 1, 2004 with a mammoth (for those times) 1GB of storage space. Gmail now has about 200 million users.
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