Category · 7 records
Browsers and platforms
Browsers, toolbars and operating systems: the products that took Google beyond its own search page, starting with the 2000 Google Toolbar.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Browsers and platformsGoogle Toolbar, the search bar for the browser (2000)
December 11, 2000 — Free and built for Internet Explorer 5 on Windows, the toolbar let people search Google without opening the search page, highlighted search terms in different colors, opened cached copies of offline pages and showed the open page's PageRank score.
- Google Museum
Event › Browsers and platformsAndroid is announced with the Open Handset Alliance (2007)
November 5, 2007 — Android was introduced on November 5, 2007 as a complete, open platform for phones, with an operating system, middleware, user interface and applications.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Browsers and platformsGoogle Chrome, the browser announced with a comic book (2008)
September 2, 2008 — Google's browser launched in beta for Windows on September 2, 2008, in more than 40 languages.
- Google Museum
Event › Browsers and platformsGoogle announces Chrome OS (2009)
July 7, 2009 — Ten months after the browser, Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson announced on the official blog a lightweight open source operating system aimed first at netbooks.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Browsers and platformsGoogle Cloud Print, printing through the cloud (2010–2021)
April 15, 2010 — Google Cloud Print appeared on April 15, 2010 in a Chromium blog post about how Chrome OS would handle printing.
- Google Museum
Product or service › Browsers and platformsiGoogle, the customizable home page (until 2013)
July 2012 — iGoogle was a customizable home page built from gadgets.
- Google Museum
Event › Browsers and platformsApple and Google team up against COVID-19 (2020)
April 2020 — Apple and Google, makers of iOS and Android, announced joint work: first, interfaces so official public health apps could work on both Android and iOS, starting in May 2020; then the technology built into the systems themselves, on an opt-in basis.