Timeline Development. History of Google Google was started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who met at...

Timeline Development

History of GoogleGoogle was started by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who met at Stanford University in 1995.

In 1996 they began to collaborate on a search engine, BackRub, which was using up too much of Stanford’s bandwith.

Google Incorporation

• On September 4, 1998, Google files for incorporation.

• Bank account opened with a check donated by Andy Bechtolsheim.

• Work area is set up in a friend’s garage in Santa Margarita, California.

• Google’s first employee is hired.

The tools your students want

T The Timeline • In February 2006 Google produced Gmail

followed later in the year by an expansion to Google Apps.

• In October Google gave educational institutions to sign up for the service, free of charge, and renamed it Google Apps for Education.

• By 2007, Google made all registration public and all domains using GOOGLE Apps would get increased storage.

• October, 2007, Google announced an increase in the email storage for Google Apps domains.

• In January, 2009, Google Apps became a part of the Lab Suites so users could add their gadgets such as offline tasks, and vacation time.

• Towards the middle of the year Google began providing GovCloud to host Apps in a new environment. They also upgraded all their services to be in sync with Microsoft Outlook.

• Google Apps accounts are transferred to the same back end as other Google accounts. This aligns them so that they receive all updates at the same time.

• By 2013, Google Apps Education adopted by many high end institutions , some of which are shown in slide 7.

Google Apps Education Adoption ProcessThe adoption process time line is explained in slide 5.

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Google Apps Education Adoption Process

Institutions that have adopted Google Apps Education