The following are important dates in the development history of Google.

March, 1995

: Sergey Brin and Larry Page met for the first time at the spring gathering of computer doctor candidates at Stanford University.

September 7th, 1998: Google Company was established in a garage in California with four employees.

Brin and Page raised $1 million from family, friends and investors.

Brin and Page were 24 and 25 respectively.

February to June, 1999: Google acquired Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield &; Byers invested $25 million from two venture capital funds.

May to June, 2: Google made 18 million queries every day, becoming the largest Internet search engine, and Yahoo chose Google as the default search result provider.

March to April, 21

: Eric Schmidt, then CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Novell, joined Google as Chairman of the Board of Directors and was soon appointed as CEO.

March to April, 22

: Google launched a beta version of Google News.

September to October: Google launched keyword advertisements all over the world, providing keyword advertising services in Britain, Germany, France and Japan.

January to February, 23

: Google acquired Pyra Lab, the founder of online publishing tool Blogger.

May to June: Google launched AdSense, an advertising plan that can advertise according to the content of the website.

February 24

: Yahoo began to launch its own search technology and faded out of Google search technology.

March 31st: Google announced the free email service Gmail.

April 29th: Google submits IPO application documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

July 12th: Google said that it would be listed and traded on Nasdaq, and disclosed the stock code "GOOG.O".

July 26th: Google disclosed that it would sell 24.6 million shares at a price of between $18 and $135, which made the company's market value exceed $3.6 billion.

July 3th: Google began to accept the registration of bidders on its website.

August 5th: Google disclosed that it may illegally issue stocks and options to former and current employees, and proposed to buy back these stocks and options.

August 9th: Google raised the number of shares to 25.7 million, and will issue 2.7 million shares to Yahoo to settle the advertising technology lawsuit.

August 12th: Google ends the registration of bidders.

August 13th: Google began to accept the IPO auction quotation, and * * * published an exclusive interview with Brin and Page, which led to an informal investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and may lead to the postponement of the IPO.

August 16th: Google asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to declare the listing registration valid, which is the first step to determine the IPO price and publicly issue shares.

August 18th: Google reduced the number of shares offered to 19.6 million, and lowered the IPO price range to $85 to $95.

Google ended the auction, set an IPO price of $85, and obtained the listing permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

August 19th: Google opened at $1.1, 18% higher than the IPO price.

On September 19th, 25,

Kai-fu Lee joined Google.