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In 2000, Google is already available in different languages which include French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish,<ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease22.html Google Goes Global]</ref> Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease34.html Global Expansion]</ref> The Google Adwords was launched with 350 customers and Google Toolbar. On June 11, 2000, the google home page became the largest search engine with 1 billion items.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2000 Timeline Year 2000]</ref>
In 2000, Google is already available in different languages which include French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish,<ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease22.html Google Goes Global]</ref> Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease34.html Global Expansion]</ref> The Google Adwords was launched with 350 customers and Google Toolbar. On June 11, 2000, the google home page became the largest search engine with 1 billion items.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2000 Timeline Year 2000]</ref>
In 2001, Google is already available in 26 languages, Eric Schmidt was appointed Chairman and Wayne Rosing was hired as VP for Engineering.[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2000 Timeline Year 2001]</ref> The following year, Schmidt was elected CEO while Page assumed the position of president for products and Brin became president for technology.<ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/ceo.html Press Release]</ref> Google opened its first international office in Tokyo, Japan.
In 2002, Google and [[AOL]] inked partnership, the company also launched the '''Google Search Appliance,'''new device that will allow corporations to use its search technology to scan their own networks, <ref>[http://news.cnet.com/Google-aims-search-device-at-companies/2100-1023_3-833905.html CNET]</ref> Adwords Select, an enhanced version of Adwords was released, a self-service advertising system with the Cost-Per Click (CPC)feature, <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/select.html Press Release]</ref> the First Google API which enables developers to query more than 2 billion web documents and programs in their favorite environments, and the Google Labs.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-919173.html Google ushers Web surfers into its labs]</ref> The Google News and Froogle was also launched and the company's office in Australia was opened.
The American Dialect Society announced on January 13, 2003 that google was voted by its members as the “most useful” Word of the Year for 2002.<ref>[http://www.americandialect.org/index.php/amerdial/2002_words_of_the_y/ American Dialect Society]</ref> Goodle Adsense, Google Grants and Google Print were released.
Google's Initial Public Offering (IPO) was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2004.<ref>[http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/google/ipo/ds1.pdf SEC Document]</ref> During the same year, company also released Google Orkut, Google Local Gmai, SMS for mobile, Google Desktop search and Google Scholar were released.The Tokyo R & D Center was opened and the search index reach 8 billion.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2004 Timeline Year 2004]</ref>