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In 2008, Google developed a partnership with GeoEye to launch a satellite providing Google with high-resolution (0.41 m monochrome, 1.65 m color) imagery for Google Earth. The satellite was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on September 6, 2008. [120] Google also announced in 2008 that it was hosting an archive of Life Magazine ' s ...
Development of basic technology, launch of search engine, attachments like gmail and classroom come later. 2000: Internationalization: search is launched in 13 new languages. 2001–2004: Google launches many new search categories, such as Google News, Google Books, and Google Scholar. 2002 onward
In 2004, Google formed the not-for-profit philanthropic Google.org, with a start-up fund of $1 billion. [330] The mission of the organization is to create awareness about climate change, global public health, and global poverty. One of its first projects was to develop a viable plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that can attain 100 miles per gallon.
The domain Google.com is registered. [30] Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998). 23: New web search engine (non-English) Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich launch their Russian web search engine Yandex and publicly present it at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. The initial development is by Comptek ...
Google released their Chrome browser in 2008 with the first JIT JavaScript engine, V8. Chrome overtook IE to become the dominant desktop browser in four years, [82] and overtook Safari to become the dominant mobile browser in two. [83] At the same time, Google open sourced Chrome's codebase as Chromium. [84]
Google Maps Beta in 2005. The launch of Google Maps was first announced on the Google Blog on February 8, 2005. [13] In September 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Google Maps quickly updated its satellite imagery of New Orleans to allow users to view the extent of the flooding in various parts of that city. [14] [15]
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Google+ (sometimes written as Google Plus, stylized as G+ or g+) was a social network that was owned and operated by Google until it ceased operations in 2019. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an attempt to challenge other social networks, linking other Google products like Google Drive, Blogger and YouTube.