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Scheduled reviews (11)
Ongoing cases and events from 2025 onward have a date to be checked again, because dates, status and sources may still change.
- Google Assistant, the conversation with Google (2016) — by February 1, 2027 · Active
- The U.S. government sues Google over its search monopoly (2020–2024) — by February 1, 2027 · Ongoing
- A court finds Google monopolized advertising technology (2025–2026) — by February 1, 2027 · Ongoing
- The judge sets remedies in the search case, and Google keeps Chrome (2025) — by February 1, 2027 · Ongoing
- Google buys Wiz, the cloud security company (2025–2026) — by May 1, 2027 · Concluded
- AI Mode, search as a conversation (2025) — by May 1, 2027 · Active
- The four-color G gets a gradient (2025) — by May 1, 2027 · Active
- A Google scientist wins the Nobel Prize in Physics (2025) — by May 1, 2027 · Concluded
- Gemini 3, the model that reached Search on day one (2025) — by May 1, 2027 · Active
- Apple picks Gemini as the foundation of its AI models (2026) — by May 1, 2027 · Concluded
- Gemini 3.5 Flash, the default model in AI Mode (2026) — by May 1, 2027 · Active
Status that may have changed (19)
Items marked active or ongoing whose most recent source was published three or more years ago.
- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine — Active · latest source from 1998
- Google Scholar, the academic paper search (2004) — Active · latest source from 2004
- Google Earth, the free 3D globe (2005) — Active · latest source from 2005
- Google Analytics, free website statistics (2005) — Active · latest source from 2005
- AdSense, Google ads on other sites (2003) — Active · latest source from 2006
- Street View, streets in photos on Google Maps (2007) — Active · latest source from 2007
- Google Chrome, the browser announced with a comic book (2008) — Active · latest source from 2008
- Google Search in its beta years (1998–1999) — Active · latest source from 2009
- Gmail, the 1 GB email announced on April 1 (2004) — Active · latest source from 2009
- Google News, the front page built by an algorithm (2002) — Active · latest source from 2010
- Chromebook, the Chrome OS laptop (2011) — Active · latest source from 2011
- Google Drive, cloud files with 5 GB free (2012) — Active · latest source from 2012
- Knowledge Graph, things not strings (2012) — Active · latest source from 2012
- Chromecast, phone video on the TV for $35 (2013) — Active · latest source from 2013
- Google Photos, free unlimited storage (2015) — Active · latest source from 2015
- The sans-serif logo of 2015 — Active · latest source from 2015
- Pixel and the Made by Google line (2016) — Active · latest source from 2016
- Attention Is All You Need, the Transformer paper (2017) — Active · latest source from 2017
- G Suite becomes Google Workspace (2020) — Active · latest source from 2020
Claims that need a better source (107)
Level 3 (secondary source) or level 4 (unconfirmed) claims.
Open gaps (255 in 118 records)
- Page and Brin meet at Stanford: Find the original corporate history page on the Wayback Machine; Exact date of the visit
- BackRub: Primary source for the crawler start; Date of the BackRub-to-Google name change; Role of project contributors (Scott Hassan, Alan Steremberg) according to primary sources
- google.com domain registered: Historical WHOIS record as a primary source
- Craig Silverstein, the first employee: Hiring date; Primary source: 2010 Mercury News interview cited by EBSCO
- The 1998 logo, with an exclamation mark: Primary source for authorship; Intermediate 1997–1998 versions
- Google Search in its beta years (1998–1999): Official date Search left beta; Open and describe the three captures; Primary source for search volumes
- The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine: Exact date of the WWW7 session
- PageRank: Open the patent record at USPTO or Google Patents; Terms of the exclusive license between Stanford and Google; Official statements on PageRank's role today
- Andy Bechtolsheim's US$100,000 check: Parallel investment attributed to David Cheriton: only weak sources so far; Exact day of the meeting
- Burning Man, the first Doodle: Doodle image with a documented basis for use (the logo is a trademark)
- The Menlo Park garage, Google's first office: Primary source for the rent amount; Date of the move into the garage
- Google Inc. is incorporated: California incorporation record as a primary source; Official post that set the September 27 celebration
- Google on PC Magazine's Top 100 list: PC Magazine issue and page as a primary source
- Red Hat, the first commercial customer: Contract date and terms; Red Hat or Google announcement of the deal
- The move to Palo Alto: Month of the move (February or March 1999); Date of the next move to Mountain View
- Ruth Kedar's logo (1999): Primary interview with Kedar about the process (Google Blogoscoped, 2008; Logo Geek, 2019); Images of the studies, with the author's permission
- The US$25 million round and the first press release: Open the capture of the original press release; Split of the amount between the two firms
- MentalPlex, Google's first April Fools' prank (2000): Capture of the google.com home page on April 1, 2000; Press coverage at the time
- Google gets a Portuguese version (2000): Whether the version was Brazilian or European Portuguese; First capture of the Portuguese interface
- The index passes 1 billion addresses (2000): Independent comparison with competitors' index sizes in 2000
- Yahoo! picks Google as its default search engine (2000): Date Google results went live on Yahoo!; End of the deal and which provider Google replaced
- AdWords, the keyword advertising program (2000): Capture of the first AdWords sign-up page; Date the per-thousand pricing ended in AdWords
- Google Toolbar, the search bar for the browser (2000): Primary source for the toolbar's end; End dates of the Firefox and Internet Explorer versions
- Google buys Deja.com's Usenet archive (2001): Date the Google Groups name came into use; Exact order of Google's first acquisitions
- Google Image Search (2001): Official launch announcement; Eric Schmidt's original Project Syndicate text; Exact launch date
- Eric Schmidt becomes Google's CEO (2001): End of Schmidt's term as CEO (2010–2014 block)
- UOL adopts Google search (2001): Length of the deal; Brazilian press coverage at the time
- Google Search Appliance, search in a box for companies (2002): Exact date of the first model; Launch prices
- Google Answers, questions answered by paid researchers (2002–2006): Exact launch date; Official shutdown announcement; Fate of the question-and-answer archive
- Google Labs, the showcase of experiments (2002–2011): Opening date of labs.google.com; First experiments published; Official closure post
- PigeonRank, the pigeons that ranked the web (2002): Google's 2001 prank, if any; Press coverage
- Google News, the front page built by an algorithm (2002): Exact launch date and number of sources at launch; Date it left beta; Launch of the Brazilian edition
- Froogle, Google's product search (2002): Launch announcement; Exact renaming date; Transition to Google Shopping
- Google buys Pyra Labs, maker of Blogger (2003): Google's official announcement; Purchase price
- AdSense, Google ads on other sites (2003): When AdSense began accepting Portuguese-language sites (the 2006 Portuguese blog does not prove that date)
- Google buys Applied Semantics (2003): Purchase price
- Orkut, the Google social network that became Brazilian (2004–2014): Captures of Orkut in 2004 and at its peak, around 2008; Official announcement of the 2008 move to Brazil; Peak number of Brazilian users
- Gmail, the 1 GB email announced on April 1 (2004): Source for the invitation system; Reaction to the April 1 announcement; Portuguese launch and the Google Mail name in some countries
- Google goes public on Nasdaq (2004): SEC prospectus (Form S-1) and the founders' letter; Amount raised by the company, separate from shares sold by stockholders
- Google buys Picasa, the photo organizer (2004): Purchase price; Exact end date of Picasa for desktop
- Google Desktop, search inside your computer (2004–2011): Google's official post on Desktop's end; Mac and Linux versions
- Google buys Keyhole, maker of 3D maps (2004): Documented link to Google Earth (2005–2009 block)
- Google Scholar, the academic paper search (2004): Google's official announcement; Debut of the Google Acadêmico name in Brazil
- Google starts scanning libraries (2004): Launch of Google Print for publishers in 2004; Source for the change from Google Print to Google Books
- Google Maps, the map you could drag with the mouse (2005): Text of the launch post; Google Maps' arrival in Brazil; Where 2 Technologies acquisition
- Google Video, the video service that ended up moved to YouTube (2005–2012): What the June 27, 2005 post says about the start of video playback (only the title was read); Paid video store; Relation to the 2006 YouTube purchase
- Google Earth, the free 3D globe (2005): Operating systems supported at launch; End of the paid versions
- Google arrives in Brazil: Akwan, Belo Horizonte and São Paulo (2005): Official announcement of the Akwan purchase; Exact opening date of the Belo Horizonte center; First address of the São Paulo office
- Google Talk, messaging and voice for Gmail users (2005–2017): Official retirement announcement; Talk chat inside Gmail
- Google Reader, the feed reader (2005–2013): Number of users at closure
- Google Analytics, free website statistics (2005): Date and price of the Urchin purchase
- Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion (2006): YouTube's own record as a product; Exact date of the Brazilian version
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets, text and spreadsheets on the web (2006): Date Writely was acquired; Google Spreadsheets launch; When the name became just Google Docs
- Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 billion (2007): Exact April announcement date; Closing date; End of the DoubleClick brand (2018)
- TiSP, free internet through the toilet (2007): Capture of the home page that day; Main TiSP page, beyond the press release
- Street View, streets in photos on Google Maps (2007): Street View's arrival in Brazil (2010–2014 block); Privacy debates in the early years
- Android is announced with the Open Handset Alliance (2007): Google's 2005 purchase of Android Inc.; Android OS's own record; Which was the first Android sold in Brazil
- Google Chrome, the browser announced with a comic book (2008): Official comic post; Date it left beta; Portuguese version at launch
- Google Flu Trends, flu measured by searches (2008–2015): Studies that found errors in the estimates; Brazil version and dengue tracking
- Google Wave, email, chat and documents in one place (2009–2010): Official post on Wave's end; Date Wave's servers were shut down; Fate of the code (Apache Wave)
- Google announces Chrome OS (2009): First Chromebooks (2010–2014 block)
- Google announces the purchase of AdMob, a mobile ad network (2009): Closing date
- Nexus One, the phone sold by Google itself (2010): Official launch post (January 5, 2010); Exact end date of online sales
- Google stops censoring search in China (2010): Full text of both official posts; Launch of google.cn in 2006; Official response of the Chinese government
- Google Buzz, the social network inside Gmail (2010–2011): Official launch post; Text of the FTC settlement
- Google Cloud Print, printing through the cloud (2010–2021): Technical description of the service in the 2010 post; Exit from beta, if any
- Street View arrives in Brazil (2010): Google Brazil announcement; Privacy controversies at the Brazilian launch
- Larry Page becomes Google's CEO again (2011): Official January 20, 2011 announcement
- Chromebook, the Chrome OS laptop (2011): Official announcement post; Chromebooks' arrival in Brazil
- Google+, Google's big social bet (2011–2019): Official date it opened without invitation; Peak number of users; Google+ in Brazil
- Google buys Motorola Mobility and sells it to Lenovo (2011–2014): Closing of the Lenovo sale; Motorola in Brazil under Google
- Google Play Music, Google’s music before YouTube Music (2011–2020): 2011 beta phase (Music Beta); Rename to Google Play Music (2012); Arrival in Brazil
- Google Glass, the computer on your face (2012–2023): Original Project Glass Google+ post; Exact start date of the Explorer program; Launch of the first Enterprise Edition; Privacy debate in 2013 and 2014
- Google Drive, cloud files with 5 GB free (2012): Portuguese launch post
- Knowledge Graph, things not strings (2012): Metaweb (Freebase) acquisition in 2010; Arrival in Portuguese
- iGoogle, the customizable home page (until 2013): Debut year: sources point to 2005, but the official post cited for it (Freeze frame!, 2010) did not show the passage when the museum read it; Original 2012 announcement post; Capture of the page at its peak
- Google Hangouts, messaging and video calls in one app (2013–2022): Announcement at Google I/O 2013 for consumers; Hangouts as part of Google+; Split into Hangouts Chat and Meet (2017)
- Chromecast, phone video on the TV for $35 (2013): Text of the official launch post (only the title and date were read); Arrival in Brazil; End of the Chromecast line (2024)
- Google buys Nest for $3.2 billion (2014): Google's official announcement; Nest inside Alphabet (2015–2019 block)
- Google buys DeepMind, the artificial intelligence lab (2014): Official confirmation by Google or DeepMind; AlphaGo and later models (next blocks)
- Pokémon Challenge, catching Pokémon in Google Maps (2014): Google pranks between 2003 and 2013; Link to Pokémon GO (2016)
- Inbox by Gmail, the email lab (2014–2019): Exact shutdown day; Opening without invitation
- Google Domains, the domain registrar sold to Squarespace (2015–2023): Sale price; Completion of the migration to Squarespace (2024); Availability in Brazil
- Google Photos, free unlimited storage (2015): End of free unlimited storage (2021); Link to Picasa and Google+ Photos
- Alphabet is born, and Google becomes one of its companies (2015): Date of the legal reorganization, which the 2015 10-K at the SEC places on October 2, 2015 (source not yet read by the museum); Date Alphabet replaced Google Inc. on the exchange
- The sans-serif logo of 2015: Official logo introduction post; Name and license of the typeface used in the design
- AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at Go 4–1 (2016): The Nature paper (2016); Later versions: AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero, with their own dates and sources
- Mic Drop, the Gmail prank that backfired (2016): Official Gmail post with the apology
- Google Assistant, the conversation with Google (2016): Date of the first device with the Assistant in the U.S.; Actual dates of the switch to Gemini by device and country: the 2025 post gives only the plan, and the Google community notice of August 2026, about a gradual removal starting September 3, 2026, could not be read by the museum; Future of the Assistant on speakers, displays and cars
- Google Allo, the messenger with the Assistant inside (2016–2019): Announcement at Google I/O in May 2016; Duo, the video app launched alongside; Exact shutdown day
- Google Optimize, Google’s A/B testing tool (2016–2023): Content of the September 29, 2016 post (only the title was read) and the Optimize 360 launch; End announcement; Number of users
- Pixel and the Made by Google line (2016): Price and maker of the first Pixel; End of Daydream; Pixel in Brazil
- Jamboard, the Google Workspace digital whiteboard (2016–2024): Actual date sales began; Sales in Brazil
- Google's first cloud region in Latin America, in São Paulo (2017): Exact date and Google Cloud announcement; Other Brazilian milestones of the period: startup campus (2016), Grow with Google (2017), Plus Codes (2019)
- Attention Is All You Need, the Transformer paper (2017): Presentation at NeurIPS 2017; Source for the Transformer's influence on later models
- Google Duplex, the Assistant that phones for you (2018): Debate over the voice identifying itself as a machine
- Google Podcasts, Google’s podcast app (2018–2024): iOS and web versions; Exact end date in Brazil
- Stadia, Google's game streaming service (2019–2023): Announcement at GDC in March 2019; Exact launch date; Official shutdown post
- Sundar Pichai also becomes Alphabet's CEO (2019): Full text of the founders' farewell letter
- The year Google called off April Fools' Day (2020): What happened to the tradition in later years; Full text of the internal email
- Apple and Google team up against COVID-19 (2020): Exact date of the joint announcement; Use in Brazil by the Health Ministry app
- G Suite becomes Google Workspace (2020): Official renaming post; Dates of Google Apps and G Suite
- The U.S. government sues Google over its search monopoly (2020–2024): Text of the court ruling; Other cases: ad tech and Epic Games
- Google completes its purchase of Fitbit (2021): Google's official post on the closing; Text and date of the commitments made to the European Commission
- Bard, Google's chatbot that became Gemini (2023–2024): Date of the U.S. public opening (March 2023); The wrong answer in the launch video and the market reaction
- DeepMind and Google Brain merge into Google DeepMind (2023): Origin of the Google Brain team; Jeff Dean's role in the new structure
- Gemini 1.0, the first Gemini model (2023): Gemini technical report; Criticism of the demo video; Later versions (1.5, 2.0 and beyond)
- AI Overviews, AI-generated answers in Search (2024): Independent press coverage of the May 2024 errors; Effect on Brazilian website traffic; SGE tests in Search Labs in Brazil (2023)
- AlphaFold earns Hassabis and Jumper the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024): Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press release; AlphaFold and AlphaFold 2's own record (CASP14, 2020)
- Google buys Wiz, the cloud security company (2025–2026): Whether it was Google's largest acquisition ever (requires comparing deal values with explicit criteria)
- A court finds Google monopolized advertising technology (2025–2026): Text of the court's order and opinion, to describe the remedies without relying on one party's release; Appeals by the parties; Similar cases in Europe and Canada
- AI Mode, search as a conversation (2025): Exact date of the Search Labs debut; Effect on website traffic
- The judge sets remedies in the search case, and Google keeps Chrome (2025): Full reading of the final judgment and memorandum opinion; Who filed the cross-appeal and what it asks; Appeals court ruling
- The four-color G gets a gradient (2025): Exact date of the change to the Search icon; Who designed it
- A Google scientist wins the Nobel Prize in Physics (2025): Official Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcement; History of the Google Quantum AI team
- Gemini 3, the model that reached Search on day one (2025): Intermediate versions (1.5, 2.0 and 2.5); Technical report and benchmark results; General availability date for Deep Think
- Apple picks Gemini as the foundation of its AI models (2026): Value of the deal; Launch of the new Siri; Relation to the search antitrust case
- Gemini 3.5 Flash, the default model in AI Mode (2026): Actual launch of Gemini 3.5 Pro; Exact day of the I/O stage presentation