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• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  Page and Brin meet at Stanford

  1995 — In 1995 Sergey Brin, a Stanford PhD student, was one of the students assigned to show the campus to Larry Page, a prospective student from the University of Michigan.

• S Google Museum
  Research project › Search and discovery

  BackRub

  1996 — Larry Page and Sergey Brin's Stanford research project that ranked pages by the web's link structure.

• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  google.com domain registered

  September 15, 1997 — The google.com domain was registered on September 15, 1997, while the search engine still ran at Stanford addresses.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Craig Silverstein, the first employee

  1998 — Craig Silverstein, Page and Brin's fellow PhD student at Stanford, was the first employee hired by the new company in 1998.

• I Google Museum
  Visual identity › Identity and culture

  The 1998 logo, with an exclamation mark

  1998 — The first logos were made by the founders themselves in the free GIMP image editor.

• S Google Museum
  Product or service › Search and discovery

  Google Search in its beta years (1998–1999)

  1998 — After leaving Stanford's addresses, the search engine moved to google.com under a beta label.

• A Google Museum
  Research paper › AI and research

  The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

  April 1998 — Paper by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page that presented Google as an academic prototype and described PageRank.

• S Google Museum
  Technology › Search and discovery

  PageRank

  April 1998 — A measure of a page's importance computed from the links it receives and from the importance of the pages citing it.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Andy Bechtolsheim's US$100,000 check

  August 1998 — In August 1998 Andy Bechtolsheim, a Sun Microsystems co-founder, wrote a US$100,000 check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

• I Google Museum
  Visual identity › Identity and culture

  Burning Man, the first Doodle

  August 30, 1998 — On August 30, 1998, before leaving for the Burning Man festival, Page and Brin placed the event's stick figure behind the second "o" of the logo.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  The Menlo Park garage, Google's first office

  September 1998 — After the August 1998 investment, the new company moved from Stanford dorms to the garage of a house in Menlo Park, California.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Google Inc. is incorporated

  September 4, 1998 — Google Inc.

• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  Google on PC Magazine's Top 100 list

  December 1998 — In December 1998, a few months after incorporation, PC Magazine included Google in its list of the year's 100 best web sites and search engines.

• A Google Museum
  Event › Advertising and business

  Red Hat, the first commercial customer

  1999 — In 1999, before AdWords existed, Google's business model was licensing its search technology to other sites.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  The move to Palo Alto

  February 1999 — In early 1999, with about eight employees and 500,000 searches a day, Google left the Menlo Park garage for 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, a building known for housing other Silicon Valley startups.

• I Google Museum
  Visual identity › Identity and culture

  Ruth Kedar's logo (1999)

  May 31, 1999 — In 1999 Page and Brin asked Ruth Kedar, then an art professor at Stanford, for a more professional logo.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  The US$25 million round and the first press release

  June 7, 1999 — On June 7, 1999, Google announced a US$25 million round led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, with Michael Moritz and John Doerr joining the board.

• A Google Museum
  Prank › April Fools

  MentalPlex, Google's first April Fools' prank (2000)

  April 1, 2000 — On April 1, 2000, Google presented MentalPlex, a search that needed no typing: users just had to project a mental picture of what they wanted to find.

• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  Google gets a Portuguese version (2000)

  May 9, 2000 — In May 2000 Google launched versions in French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish.

• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  The index passes 1 billion addresses (2000)

  June 26, 2000 — On the same day the Yahoo! deal was announced, Google said its index had passed 1 billion URLs.

• A Google Museum
  Event › Advertising and business

  Yahoo! picks Google as its default search engine (2000)

  June 26, 2000 — Yahoo! announced that Google would be its default provider of web search results, complementing its editor-built directory.

• A Google Museum
  Product or service › Advertising and business

  AdWords, the keyword advertising program (2000)

  October 23, 2000 — Launched in October 2000, AdWords let any advertiser buy small text ads shown next to search results for the keywords they chose.

• B Google Museum
  Product or service › Browsers and platforms

  Google 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.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Google buys Deja.com's Usenet archive (2001)

  February 12, 2001 — The purchase brought the Usenet archive kept by Deja.com, along with software, trademarks and the deja.com and dejanews.com domains.

• S Google Museum
  Product or service › Search and discovery

  Google Image Search (2001)

  July 2001 — In July 2001 Google began searching images, with about 250 million of them indexed.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Eric Schmidt becomes Google's CEO (2001)

  August 6, 2001 — Eric Schmidt, who had led Novell since 1997, joined Google's board as chairman in March 2001 and was named CEO in August.

• A Google Museum
  Event › Advertising and business

  UOL adopts Google search (2001)

  October 1, 2001 — Universo Online (UOL), described in the announcement as Latin America's largest online service, began offering Google search.

• H Google Museum
  Hardware › Hardware

  Google Search Appliance, search in a box for companies (2002)

  2002 — Google's first product for businesses, the Search Appliance was a server that brought Google search to internal documents.

• S Google Museum
  Product or service › Search and discovery

  Google Answers, questions answered by paid researchers (2002–2006)

  2002 — Users asked a question and set how much they would pay for a good answer, between $2 and $200.

• L Google Museum
  Experiment › Labs and experiments

  Google Labs, the showcase of experiments (2002–2011)

  2002 — On Labs, anyone could try early versions of services Google engineers were building.

• A Google Museum
  Prank › April Fools

  PigeonRank, the pigeons that ranked the web (2002)

  April 1, 2002 — The 2002 page parodied PageRank: it said the technology behind the results was flocks of trained pigeons that pecked a steel bar at every relevant page, and that this method made the results hard to manipulate.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Media and entertainment

  Google News, the front page built by an algorithm (2002)

  September 2002 — Google News gathered stories from many outlets on the same subject and built the page automatically.

• A Google Museum
  Product or service › Advertising and business

  Froogle, Google's product search (2002)

  December 2002 — Launched in December 2002, Froogle searched for products for sale on the web.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Google buys Pyra Labs, maker of Blogger (2003)

  February 13, 2003 — Pyra Labs, a six-person San Francisco company, ran Blogger and Blogspot.

• A Google Museum
  Product or service › Advertising and business

  AdSense, Google ads on other sites (2003)

  March 4, 2003 — In March 2003 Google launched contextual ads, which analyzed a page's subject and showed related sponsored links.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Google buys Applied Semantics (2003)

  April 23, 2003 — Applied Semantics made software for online ads, domain names and information management.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Orkut, the Google social network that became Brazilian (2004–2014)

  January 22, 2004 — Orkut was Google's first social network, created as an experimental project by the engineer it was named after, Orkut Büyükkökten.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Gmail, the 1 GB email announced on April 1 (2004)

  April 1, 2004 — Google announced Gmail on April 1, 2004: free search-based webmail with 1 gigabyte of storage per user.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Google goes public on Nasdaq (2004)

  April 29, 2004 — In 2004 Google went public through a Dutch auction.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Google buys Picasa, the photo organizer (2004)

  July 13, 2004 — Picasa, based in Pasadena, California, made a program for organizing and sharing digital photos and already had a partnership with Blogger for publishing images.

• P Google Museum
  Product or service › Productivity and education

  Google Desktop, search inside your computer (2004–2011)

  October 14, 2004 — A free program for Windows XP and 2000, Google Desktop Search searched the computer itself: Outlook email, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, Internet Explorer history and AOL Instant Messenger chats.

• M Google Museum
  Event › Maps and location

  Google buys Keyhole, maker of 3D maps (2004)

  October 27, 2004 — Keyhole, a Mountain View company founded in 2001, made a program where users typed an address and saw an image of the place, zooming from space to street level, tilting and rotating the view.

• P Google Museum
  Product or service › Productivity and education

  Google Scholar, the academic paper search (2004)

  November 18, 2004 — Google Scholar tuned Google's crawler for academic papers and showed, for each work, who cited it.

• M Google Museum
  Event › Media and entertainment

  Google starts scanning libraries (2004)

  December 14, 2004 — Google expanded its Google Print program, which made books searchable, with partnerships to scan the collections of five libraries: Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford and the New York Public Library.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Maps and location

  Google Maps, the map you could drag with the mouse (2005)

  February 8, 2005 — Google Maps was introduced on the official blog on February 8, 2005.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Media and entertainment

  Google Video, the video service that ended up moved to YouTube (2005–2012)

  April 13, 2005 — On April 13, 2005 Google opened the Google Video upload program, free and with no limit on length or size; on June 27, 2005 a post titled Google Video.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Maps and location

  Google Earth, the free 3D globe (2005)

  June 28, 2005 — Eight months after buying Keyhole, Google launched Google Earth, a free program for flying over 3D satellite and aerial imagery and searching for places.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Google arrives in Brazil: Akwan, Belo Horizonte and São Paulo (2005)

  July 20, 2005 — Google's Brazilian operation began in Minas Gerais: in July 2005 the company bought Akwan Information Technologies, a Belo Horizonte firm founded by computer science professors at UFMG, the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Google Talk, messaging and voice for Gmail users (2005–2017)

  August 24, 2005 — Google Talk was a free Windows program that combined instant messaging and voice calls over the computer, using the Gmail account and contacts.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Media and entertainment

  Google Reader, the feed reader (2005–2013)

  October 7, 2005 — Introduced at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Google Reader gathered in one place the site and blog feeds a user subscribed to.

• A Google Museum
  Product or service › Advertising and business

  Google Analytics, free website statistics (2005)

  November 14, 2005 — The website traffic analysis service, which came from the Urchin purchase and was called Urchin from Google, was renamed Google Analytics and made free for any business.

• M Google Museum
  Event › Media and entertainment

  Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion (2006)

  October 9, 2006 — Founded in February 2005, YouTube served more than 100 million video views a day and received 65,000 new videos daily when Google announced the purchase on October 9, 2006.

• P Google Museum
  Product or service › Productivity and education

  Google Docs & Spreadsheets, text and spreadsheets on the web (2006)

  October 11, 2006 — Introduced at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, the service combined the Writely word processor and Google Spreadsheets.

• A Google Museum
  Event › Advertising and business

  Google buys DoubleClick for $3.1 billion (2007)

  April 2007 — DoubleClick made display advertising technology for the web.

• A Google Museum
  Prank › April Fools

  TiSP, free internet through the toilet (2007)

  April 1, 2007 — The April 1, 2007 release, datelined Mountain View, announced Google TiSP (BETA), short for Toilet Internet Service Provider: a free, ad-supported wireless internet provider for anyone with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a municipal sewer system.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Maps and location

  Street View, streets in photos on Google Maps (2007)

  May 29, 2007 — The Google Maps blog introduced Street View on May 29, 2007.

• B Google Museum
  Event › Browsers and platforms

  Android 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.

• B Google Museum
  Product or service › Browsers and platforms

  Google 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.

• A Google Museum
  Experiment › AI and research

  Google Flu Trends, flu measured by searches (2008–2015)

  November 11, 2008 — Google.org launched Flu Trends to estimate flu levels in each U.S.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Google Wave, email, chat and documents in one place (2009–2010)

  May 28, 2009 — Wave combined email, instant messaging, wiki, forum and collaborative documents in one browser-based service.

• B Google Museum
  Event › Browsers and platforms

  Google 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.

• A Google Museum
  Event › Advertising and business

  Google announces the purchase of AdMob, a mobile ad network (2009)

  November 9, 2009 — AdMob made display ad technology for phones and apps.

• H Google Museum
  Hardware › Hardware

  Nexus One, the phone sold by Google itself (2010)

  January 2010 — The HTC-built Nexus One was unveiled in early January 2010 along with a Google online store for selling Android devices: $529 unlocked or $179 with a T-Mobile plan.

• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  Google stops censoring search in China (2010)

  January 12, 2010 — In January 2010 Google announced that it and more than twenty other U.S.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Google Buzz, the social network inside Gmail (2010–2011)

  February 2010 — Buzz launched inside Gmail and, in its initial settings, made users automatically follow the contacts they emailed most, and showed this publicly.

• B Google Museum
  Product or service › Browsers and platforms

  Google 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.

• M Google Museum
  Event › Maps and location

  Street View arrives in Brazil (2010)

  September 30, 2010 — Google launched Street View in Brazil at a press event, after about a year of image collection.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Larry Page becomes Google's CEO again (2011)

  January 20, 2011 — Along with its fourth-quarter 2010 results, Google announced a change at the top: Larry Page would take over as CEO on April 4, 2011, running day-to-day operations; Eric Schmidt, CEO since 2001, would become executive chairman, focused on external deals and governments; and Sergey Brin would devote himself to strategic projects.

• H Google Museum
  Hardware › Hardware

  Chromebook, the Chrome OS laptop (2011)

  May 11, 2011 — Two years after announcing Chrome OS, Google introduced Chromebooks at Google I/O, based on the CR-48 prototype.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Google+, Google's big social bet (2011–2019)

  June 28, 2011 — Launched on June 28, 2011 as a limited field trial, Google+ organized contacts into Circles and offered group video calls, Hangouts.

• H Google Museum
  Event › Hardware

  Google buys Motorola Mobility and sells it to Lenovo (2011–2014)

  August 15, 2011 — On August 15, 2011 Google and Motorola Mobility announced the purchase at $40 per share in cash, about $12.5 billion, promising to keep Motorola as a separate business and Android open.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Media and entertainment

  Google Play Music, Google’s music before YouTube Music (2011–2020)

  November 16, 2011 — On November 16, 2011 Google launched the Google Music store in the U.S., inside Android Market, keeping free storage for up to 20,000 of the user’s songs.

• H Google Museum
  Hardware › Hardware

  Google Glass, the computer on your face (2012–2023)

  April 4, 2012 — On April 4, 2012 a Google[x] team showed Project Glass on a Google+ page, with photos and a video of eyewear displaying weather, calendar, directions and video calls in front of the eyes.

• P Google Museum
  Product or service › Productivity and education

  Google Drive, cloud files with 5 GB free (2012)

  April 24, 2012 — Announced by Sundar Pichai, Drive brought creating, sharing and storing files into one place.

• S Google Museum
  Technology › Search and discovery

  Knowledge Graph, things not strings (2012)

  May 16, 2012 — Introduced by Amit Singhal under the motto "things, not strings", the Knowledge Graph models real-world people, places and things and the links between them.

• B Google Museum
  Product or service › Browsers and platforms

  iGoogle, the customizable home page (until 2013)

  July 2012 — iGoogle was a customizable home page built from gadgets.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Google Hangouts, messaging and video calls in one app (2013–2022)

  May 17, 2013 — In May 2013 Google introduced the new Hangouts, combining messaging, photos and video calls with up to 15 people on computers, Android and iOS, and able to replace Gmail chat and Talk on Android.

• H Google Museum
  Hardware › Hardware

  Chromecast, phone video on the TV for $35 (2013)

  July 24, 2013 — About the size of a thumb drive, Chromecast connected to the TV's HDMI port and the home Wi-Fi.

• H Google Museum
  Event › Hardware

  Google buys Nest for $3.2 billion (2014)

  January 13, 2014 — Nest made a connected thermostat, sold since 2011, and the Protect smoke alarm.

• A Google Museum
  Event › AI and research

  Google buys DeepMind, the artificial intelligence lab (2014)

  January 26, 2014 — Google confirmed on January 26, 2014 that it had bought DeepMind, a British artificial intelligence company founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.

• A Google Museum
  Prank › April Fools

  Pokémon Challenge, catching Pokémon in Google Maps (2014)

  March 31, 2014 — On March 31, 2014 Google announced, with Pokémon and Nintendo, a "training tool" for catching Pokémon scattered across streets, forests and mountains in Google Maps.

• P Google Museum
  Product or service › Productivity and education

  Inbox by Gmail, the email lab (2014–2019)

  October 22, 2014 — Introduced by Sundar Pichai on October 22, 2014, Inbox was an app separate from Gmail, on the same account.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Cloud and developers

  Google Domains, the domain registrar sold to Squarespace (2015–2023)

  2015 — Google launched Google Domains in beta in 2015 and made it generally available in 26 countries on March 15, 2022.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Media and entertainment

  Google Photos, free unlimited storage (2015)

  May 28, 2015 — Introduced by Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos became a standalone product, with free unlimited backup of photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p.

• C Google Museum
  Organization › Company and acquisitions

  Alphabet is born, and Google becomes one of its companies (2015)

  August 10, 2015 — In August 2015 Larry Page announced the creation of Alphabet, a new company that took control of Google and of projects far from the core business, such as Calico, X and the investment arms.

• I Google Museum
  Visual identity › Identity and culture

  The sans-serif logo of 2015

  September 1, 2015 — A month after announcing Alphabet, Google introduced a sans-serif logo.

• A Google Museum
  Event › AI and research

  AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol at Go 4–1 (2016)

  March 9, 2016 — Two years after Google bought it, DeepMind put its Go program, AlphaGo, against Lee Sedol, one of the world's top players, in a five-game series in Seoul from March 9 to 15, 2016.

• A Google Museum
  Prank › April Fools

  Mic Drop, the Gmail prank that backfired (2016)

  April 1, 2016 — For April 1, 2016, Gmail got a Mic Drop button that sent a dismissive animation and closed the conversation for good.

• A Google Museum
  Product or service › AI and research

  Google Assistant, the conversation with Google (2016)

  May 18, 2016 — Sundar Pichai introduced the Google Assistant as an ongoing two-way dialogue between people and Google, meant to work across devices.

• C Google Museum
  Product or service › Communication and community

  Google Allo, the messenger with the Assistant inside (2016–2019)

  September 21, 2016 — Introduced on September 21, 2016 by Amit Fulay, Allo was the messaging app where Google Assistant debuted, as an English-only preview that could be called into a group chat with @google.

• A Google Museum
  Product or service › Advertising and business

  Google Optimize, Google’s A/B testing tool (2016–2023)

  September 29, 2016 — Google Optimize, with the paid Optimize 360 version, was used for A/B testing and website personalization.

• H Google Museum
  Hardware › Hardware

  Pixel and the Made by Google line (2016)

  October 4, 2016 — On October 4, 2016 Google introduced, under the Made by Google brand, its own line of devices: the Pixel and Pixel XL phones, the Google Home speaker at $129, the Daydream View VR headset at $79, the Google Wifi router and the 4K Chromecast Ultra.

• H Google Museum
  Product or service › Hardware

  Jamboard, the Google Workspace digital whiteboard (2016–2024)

  October 25, 2016 — Introduced on October 25, 2016, with general availability announced for May 2017, Jamboard was Google Workspace’s digital whiteboard, with an app and a 55-inch physical device.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Cloud and developers

  Google's first cloud region in Latin America, in São Paulo (2017)

  2017 — According to the Google Brazil blog, Google's first cloud region in Latin America opened in São Paulo in 2017, letting companies run workloads with low latency.

• A Google Museum
  Research paper › AI and research

  Attention Is All You Need, the Transformer paper (2017)

  June 12, 2017 — The paper by Ashish Vaswani and seven co-authors proposed the Transformer, a neural network architecture based solely on attention mechanisms, without recurrence or convolutions.

• A Google Museum
  Event › AI and research

  Google Duplex, the Assistant that phones for you (2018)

  May 8, 2018 — In the Google I/O demo, the Assistant called a salon to book a haircut and handled the conversation with the person who answered, using pauses and filler sounds that sounded natural.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Media and entertainment

  Google Podcasts, Google’s podcast app (2018–2024)

  June 20, 2018 — Google Podcasts debuted as an Android app in June 2018, with recommendations and Google Assistant integration.

• M Google Museum
  Product or service › Media and entertainment

  Stadia, Google's game streaming service (2019–2023)

  2019 — Stadia ran games in the cloud and streamed them to the user's screen.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Company and acquisitions

  Sundar Pichai also becomes Alphabet's CEO (2019)

  December 3, 2019 — Four years after creating Alphabet, the founders left their executive roles.

• A Google Museum
  Event › April Fools

  The year Google called off April Fools' Day (2020)

  March 2020 — Twenty years after MentalPlex, Google suspended its April Fools' pranks.

• B Google Museum
  Event › Browsers and platforms

  Apple 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.

• P Google Museum
  Product or service › Productivity and education

  G Suite becomes Google Workspace (2020)

  October 6, 2020 — Google's paid productivity suite took the name Google Workspace and new icons for Gmail, Drive, Docs and Meet.

• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  The U.S. government sues Google over its search monopoly (2020–2024)

  October 20, 2020 — On October 20, 2020 the U.S.

• H Google Museum
  Event › Hardware

  Google completes its purchase of Fitbit (2021)

  January 14, 2021 — On November 1, 2019 Google announced the purchase of Fitbit, maker of fitness bands and watches, for $7.35 per share in cash, about $2.1 billion.

• A Google Museum
  Product or service › AI and research

  Bard, Google's chatbot that became Gemini (2023–2024)

  February 6, 2023 — On February 6, 2023 Sundar Pichai introduced Bard, an experimental conversational AI service built on the LaMDA model, first for a group of testers.

• A Google Museum
  Organization › AI and research

  DeepMind and Google Brain merge into Google DeepMind (2023)

  April 20, 2023 — Nine years after buying DeepMind, Google combined the British lab and the Brain team from Google Research into a single unit called Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis.

• A Google Museum
  AI model › AI and research

  Gemini 1.0, the first Gemini model (2023)

  December 6, 2023 — Introduced by Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis, Gemini 1.0 was described as Google's largest and most capable AI model, multimodal from the ground up.

• S Google Museum
  Product or service › Search and discovery

  AI Overviews, AI-generated answers in Search (2024)

  May 14, 2024 — After being tested in Search Labs, AI Overviews, AI-generated summaries at the top of the results page, began reaching all U.S.

• A Google Museum
  Event › AI and research

  AlphaFold earns Hassabis and Jumper the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)

  October 9, 2024 — On October 9, 2024 Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and John Jumper shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with David Baker.

• C Google Museum
  Event › Cloud and developers

  Google buys Wiz, the cloud security company (2025–2026)

  March 18, 2025 — Wiz, a New York-based cloud security platform, had its purchase announced by Google on March 18, 2025, for US$32 billion in cash.

• A Google Museum
  Event › Advertising and business

  A court finds Google monopolized advertising technology (2025–2026)

  April 17, 2025 — It was Google's second antitrust loss to the Justice Department.

• S Google Museum
  Product or service › Search and discovery

  AI Mode, search as a conversation (2025)

  May 20, 2025 — First tested in Search Labs, AI Mode was opened to all users in the United States starting at Google I/O on May 20, 2025.

• S Google Museum
  Event › Search and discovery

  The judge sets remedies in the search case, and Google keeps Chrome (2025)

  September 2, 2025 — A year after finding Google a search monopolist, Judge Amit Mehta decided the remedies on September 2, 2025.

• I Google Museum
  Visual identity › Identity and culture

  The four-color G gets a gradient (2025)

  September 29, 2025 — The G created in 2015 replaced its four flat color areas with brighter colors that blend in a gradient.

• A Google Museum
  Event › AI and research

  A Google scientist wins the Nobel Prize in Physics (2025)

  October 7, 2025 — A year after the Chemistry Nobel for AlphaFold, another Nobel Prize reached Google.

• A Google Museum
  AI model › AI and research

  Gemini 3, the model that reached Search on day one (2025)

  November 18, 2025 — Announced on November 18, 2025 by Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis and Koray Kavukcuoglu, Gemini 3 debuted as Gemini 3 Pro, in preview.

• A Google Museum
  Event › AI and research

  Apple picks Gemini as the foundation of its AI models (2026)

  January 12, 2026 — In a joint statement published on January 12, 2026, Google and Apple announced a multi-year partnership under which the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Gemini models and Google's cloud technology.

• A Google Museum
  AI model › AI and research

  Gemini 3.5 Flash, the default model in AI Mode (2026)

  May 20, 2026 — Introduced at Google I/O 2026, Gemini 3.5 Flash was described by Google as the first in a series of models combining frontier intelligence with action.