− | 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 Gmail, 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> | + | 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 Gmail, 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> DARPA scientist [[Vinton Cerf]] joined Google on September 8 and 13, 2005 as Chief Internet Evangelist<ref>[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/cerfs-up-at-google.html Google Blog]</ref> and '''Dr. Kaifu Lee''' as head of the Google's China R & D Center. [[Microsoft]] filed a suit against Dr. Lee and Google with an argument that the violated the one year non-compete agreement on his contract with the company. <ref>[http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-09-13/business/17391707_1_kai-fu-lee-noncompete-agreement-google sfgate.com]</ref> Microsoft and Google arrived a settlement agreement over Dr. Lee's hiring on December of the same year.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-6006342.html CNET]</ref> The company also opened its offices in Sao Paolo and Mexico City and numerous products were released such as '''Google Analytics, Google Transit, Google Reader''' and many other products. |
− | DARPA scientist [[Vinton Cerf]] joined Google on October 3, 2005 as Chief Internet Evangelist<ref>[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/cerfs-up-at-google.html Google Blog]</ref> and '''Dr. Kaifu Lee''' as head of the Google's China R & D Center.<ref.[http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-09-13/business/17391707_1_kai-fu-lee-noncompete-agreement-google sfgate.com]</ref> The company also opened its offices in Sao Paolo and Mexico City and numerous products were released such as '''Google Analytics, Google Transit, Google Reader''' and many other products.
| + | ===Timeline: 2006-present=== |
− | ===Timeline: 2006-present===
| + | '''Google.cn''', a local domain version of Google in China was launched in 2006 with some government restrictions. Google came up with the decision because Google.com is down 10% most of the time and the Google news is never available. |