October 26, 2009

11 Years of Google in 2 Minutes

Google UK's YouTube channel posted a video that highlights some of the most interesting events from Google's history. "From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Google Wave, StreetView and Chrome."

If you look closely, you'll spot at least one error in the video. Can you find it?


For those who want to learn more about Google's history, check this interactive timeline, the list of milestones and John Battelle's "The Search".

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25 comments:

  1. BradOctober 26, 2009 at 12:13 PM

    ok. I'm no expert obviously. I didn't see the error... :(

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  2. PedersonOctober 26, 2009 at 12:17 PM

    Didn't they raise more money than that initially?

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  3. ChrisOctober 26, 2009 at 12:23 PM

    I couldn't find the error, but is a great growth. Yesterday, I was watching the Daily Show video, Kamkwamba from Malawi said this about Google:

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-7-2009/william-kamkwamba

    "When I Googled "windmill" I found that there was millions of applications. I was like, where was this Google all this time?"

    Thanks to Google we are able to do great stuff in the web without the prohibitive costs.

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  4. AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 12:43 PM

    Is it the Chrome OS near the very end?

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  5. CyrilOctober 26, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    They used a video created to promote Google Chrome in a gadget named "Google Earth" (last page of the "Google book")?

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  6. AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 12:56 PM

    cgull LOL, great video :-D

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  7. SaimonOctober 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM

    They don't mention app engine !

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  8. Antonio SoaresOctober 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    The 1997 Google logo design just appear years later? Maybe should be one of the erros in the video...

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  9. patricknevilleOctober 26, 2009 at 1:48 PM

    they have "10100" as a googol not 10^100 i think that's the error you mention

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  10. Alex ChituOctober 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM

    Here's the error I spotted: "Google has indexed 1 trillion pages in 2007". Obviously, that's not true.

    "Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once! We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data." (a Google blog post from 2008)

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  11. AnonymousOctober 26, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    @Alex Chitu is right, noticed that before I knew to look for an error (Google indexes One Trillion URLs). Any others?

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  12. MunkeeOctober 26, 2009 at 9:31 PM

    At 1:40 when they show the announcement of android, that is clearly the outline of a BlackBerry Storm. lol

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  13. PhistucKOctober 26, 2009 at 10:16 PM

    Are you sure the last three things are Google Wave, Street View and Chrome OS? I think it is Latitude (but I have not checked its icon, though, Street View was already there).

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  14. Remiz RahnasOctober 26, 2009 at 10:20 PM

    Orkut and Gmail. Who is elder? this video says Orkut came first. I dont know really !

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  15. Otto PeuraOctober 27, 2009 at 3:19 AM

    And I didnt spot anything about Analytics?

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  16. PhaolooOctober 27, 2009 at 3:36 AM

    Otto Peura: watch the vid again, you'll see Analytics. I thought Google launched Adword and Adsense at the same time, but the video says Adsense was launched a year later.

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  17. kartikshradhaOctober 27, 2009 at 5:07 AM

    Google is the unmatched KING of the Virtual World and will remain always, Google has changed the world, we live in, cheers : )

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  18. FerranOctober 27, 2009 at 7:23 AM

    Adsense was launched after Adwords, of course.

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  19. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 8:51 AM

    Let´s go to buy twitter, isn´t it? lol
    :/

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  20. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 11:01 AM

    I think... ergo sum.

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  21. UnknownOctober 27, 2009 at 11:48 AM

    Falta/mistake/abscence of:
    google/notebook, /reader, /video, /questions (fails by competence with yahoo), and the buy to doubleclick.com

    Too the google definition =P 100100

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  22. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 8:09 PM

    the error is on the "WHAT NEXT" correct: whats next

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  23. Anti Aging SupplementOctober 28, 2009 at 3:50 AM

    I have seen video I couldn't find the error.

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  24. gadarfOctober 31, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    lol, very nice video

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  25. AnderNovember 3, 2009 at 6:23 AM

    PERSONALISED homepages! (1:25)

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