Google was named one of the top places to work in the country. In an effort to do all they could for employees, they began the "gbikes" program, providing bicycles for a healthy, efficient way for their employees to come to work.

Search the worlds information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what youre looking for.

Google got a boost in advertising when PC Magazine reported they were excellent at finding relevant search material. Google was named a top 100 website for the year.

Google continued growing, adding applications for finance, calendars, hangouts, and analytics. They had a service for nearly anything a person could need on the internet.

The Google Talk app for Windows was shut down on February 23, 2015. If you try to use the Google Talk app, youll see a sign-in error, and well send you an email explaining whats happened. To keep chatting with your contacts, you can use the Hangouts Chrome desktop app. You can use the same account that you used with Google Talk to sign in to

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Talk to Books is a new way to explore ideas and discover books. Make a statement or ask a question to browse passages from books using experimental AI.

Google opened a new facet of the company with Google Images. It allowed users to search for pictures, and had over 250 million images to offer.

Companies had been using web advertising for a few years, but Google revamped their AdWords offering with a new advertising idea. They incorporated a cost-per-click pricing that allowed companies to earn money every time someone clicked an ad.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin were college students at Stanford University. They met and became friends when Brin was assigned to show Larry around campus.

Google Talk, also known as Google Chat, was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication. The instant messaging service was variously referred to colloquially as Gchat, Gtalk, or Gmessage among its users.

The two friends brainstormed ideas for a web engine that would make surfing the net easier and more efficient. They came up with an idea they called BackRub, but it failed after a years trial.