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Google Search, offered by Google, is the most widely used search engine on the World Wide Web as of 2014, with over three billion searches a day. This page covers key events in the history of Google's search service.
For a history of Google the company, including all of Google's products, acquisitions, and corporate changes, see the history of Google page.
Year | Month and date (if available) | Event type | Event |
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1996 | March | Prelude | Larry Page and Sergey Brin, graduate students in computer science at Stanford University, begin working on BackRub, the precursor to Google Search. Page begins work alone initially, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and Brin joins him shortly thereafter. The project is an outgrowth of their work on the Stanford Digital Library Project.[1][2][3][4] Web crawling begins in March. |
1997 | September 15 | Domain | The domain Google.com is registered.[5] |
2000 | May 9 | Internationalization | Google adds ten new languages: French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian and Danish. |
2000 | September 12 | Internationalization | Google launches search services in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.[6] |
2000 | October | Advertising | Google AdWords launches with 350 customers.[5] |
2000 | December | User experience | Google Toolbar is released, allowing people to search without visiting the Google homepage, and also offering them more information about the webpages they visit.[5] Some commentators have argued that this marks the beginning of search engine optimization and the Google Dance.[7] |
2001 | July | Search category | Google launches Google Image Search with over 250 million images in its search database.[5] |
2001 | December | Review | Google releases its first annual Google Zeitgeist.[5] |
2002 | September | Search category | Google launches Google News.[5] |
2002 | September | Search algorithm update | Google makes the first publicly announced update to its search algorithm.[7] A number of Internet commentators view this as the death of PageRank (the name for Google's system for ranking pages) and a significant decline in the quality of Google's search results.[8][9][10] |
2003 | February | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Boston update at SES Boston.[7] |
2003 | April | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Cassandra update. The update claims to crack down on link spam, including mutual links between co-owned websites, as well as hidden text and hidden links.[7][11] |
2003 | May | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Dominic update. Commentators believed that the update affected the way backlinks were counted, and many webmasters reported new bots from Google that bounced.[7][12] |
2003 | June | Search algorithm update | Google announces what will later turn out to have been the last of its regular monthly updates. This update is called the Esmeralda update.[7][13] |
2003 | July | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Fritz update, and also a change to its update policy, as it moves towards continuous rather than batch processing of updates.[7][14][15] |
2003 | September | Search algorithm update | Google announces a "supplemental index" in order to be able to index some parts of the web more rapidly.[16] The supplemental index would eventually be scrapped. |
2003 | November | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Florida update, which commentators consider game-changing in that it completely destroyed the value of 1990s SEO tactics and ushered in a new era of search engine optimization.[17] |
2003 | December | Search category | Google launches Google Print, that would later become Google Books.[5] |
2004 | January | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Austin update, to continue with the work of combating SEO tactics that Florida had made good progress on.[7][18][19] |
2004 | February 17–20 | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Brandy update, a massive index expansion, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), increased attention to anchor text relevance, and the concept of link "neighborhoods."[7][20][21] |
2004 | October | Search category | Google launches Google Scholar, its search service for academic publications.[5] |
2004 | December | User experience | Google Suggest is introduced as a Google Labs feature.[22][23] |
2005 | January | Search algorithm update | To combat link spam, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft collectively introduce the nofollow attribute.[7][24] |
2005 | February 2 | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Allegra update, whose effects are unclear.[7][25][26] |
2005 | May | Search algorithm update | Google announces the Bourbon update.[7][27][28][29] |
2005 | June | Webmaster tools | Google allows webmasters to submit XML sitemaps via Webmaster Tools, bypassing the need for HTML sitemaps.[7][30] |
2005 | June | User experience | Google launches personalized search that automatically taps into users' web histories.[31][32] |
2005 | June | User experience | Google launches Google Mobile Web Search.[5] |
2005 | September | Search algorithm update | Although Google denies running an update, Matt Cutts clarifies that PageRank was refreshed for some pages recently (with a three-month refresh cycle) causing changes to many site ranks. Observers call this the Gilligan update.[7][33][34] |
2005 | September–November | Search algorithm update | Google announces and rolls out the Jagger update in three stages, one in September, one in October, one in November.[7][35][36] |
2005 | December (rollout continues till March 2006) | Search algorithm update | Google begins rolling out out the Big Daddy update, continuing for the next few months until March 2006. The update changes URL canonization, site redirects, and related items.[7][37] |
2006 | May | Review | Google releases Google Trends to make it easy to visualize the popularity of searches over time.[5] |
2007 | May 16 | Search algorithm update + user experience | Google launches Universal Search, integrating traditional search results with results from Google News, Google Image Search, Google Video Search, and other verticals. This is believed to be a major milestone in the user experience.[5][38][7][39] |
2007 | June | Search algorithm update | The Buffy update happens. It is not considered a deliberate update, but rather an accumulation of many smaller changes.[40][7][41] |
2008 | March/April | Search algorithm update | The Dewey update seems to lead to a large-scale shuffling of results. Some observers believe that Google is pushing its own properties, such as Google Books, but evidence of this is limited.[7][42] |
2008 | August 25 | User experience | Google Suggest (later called Autocomplete), originally launched as a Labs feature in December 2004, now becomes part of Google's main site.[22][23][5] |
2009 | February | Search algorithm update | The Vince update happens. Matt Cutts calls it a minor change, but some SEO commentators consider it major.[7][43] |
2009 | February | Webmaster tools | Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! announce joint support for tags that help bots identify canonical versions of webpages without affecting human visitors.[44][45] |
2009 | August 10 (announced), rollout completed and made live June 8, 2010 | Search algorithm update | Named Caffeine, this update is announced on August 10, 2009. It promises faster crawling, expansion of the index, and a near-real-time integration of indexing and ranking.[7][46][47][48][49] The rollout is made live on June 8, 2010.[50][51][52] |
2009 | October 26 | Search category | Google introduces Social Search as a Google Labs feature.[53] The feature is expanded further in late January 2010.[54] |
2009 | December 7 | Search category | Google launches real-time search for real-time Twitter feeds, Google News, and other freshly indexed content.[7][55][56] |
2010 | Late April, early May | Search algorithm update | The update, named May Day, is an algorithm change affecting the long tail. Foreshadowing Google Panda, the update penalizes sites with large amounts of thin content.[7][57][58] |
2010 | September 8 | User experience | Google launches Google Instant, described as a search-before-you-type feature: as users are typing, Google predicts the user's whole search query (using the same technology as in Google Suggest, later called the autocomplete feature) and instantaneously shows results for the top prediction.[59][60][61] Google claims that this is estimated to save 2-5 seconds per search query.[62] SEO commentators initially believe that this will have a major effect on search engine optimization, but soon revise downward their estimate of the impact.[7][63] |
2010 | November 9 | User experience | Google launches Instant Previews, a feature where users can view previews of the ranked pages by hovering over the links in the search engine results page.[7][64][65][66] |
2010 | December 1 | Search algorithm update | Google updated its algorithm to penalize websites that provided a bad experience to users. The update was motivated by a November 26 New York Times story about a fraudulent company called DecorMyEyes that used the publicity generated by negative customer reviews to rise in the search engine rankings.[7][67][68] |
2010 | December | Search algorithm update (announcement/confirmation) | Both Google and Bing (Microsoft's search engine) indicate that they use social signals, including signals from Twitter and Facebook, to rank search results.[7][69][70] |
2011 | January-February | Search algorithm update | Foreshadowing Google Panda, Google penalizes Overstock.com and JCPenney for the use of SEO tactics.[7][71][72] |
2011 | January 28 | Search algorithm update | Google launches its Attribution algorithm change to better sieve out websites that scrape content. Matt Cutts claims that slightly over 2% of search queries are affected, but less than 0.5% of results change noticeably.[7][73][74] |
2011 | February 23-24 | Search algorithm update | Google launches Google Panda, a major update affecting 12% of search queries. The update continues with the earlier work of cracking down on spam, content farms, scrapers, and websites with a high ad-to-content ratio.[7][75][76][77] The rollout is gradual over several months, and Panda will see many further updates. |
2011 | March 30 | User experience, incorporation of user feedback | Google launches the +1 button so that users can offer feedback on search results.[78] Commentators liken this to the like button seen on Facebook.[79][80] |
2011 | April 11 | Search algorithm update | Google rolls out Panda to all English queries worldwide (not limited to English-speaking countries) and integrates new signals into its ranking algorithm.[7][81][82] |
2011 | May 9 | Search algorithm update | Google rolls out further minor updates to Panda but does not discuss them in detail, saying they are more like Panda 2.1 than Panda 3.0.[7][83][84] |
2011 | June 2 | Webmaster tools | Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft announce Schema.org, a joint initiative that supports a richer range of tags that websites can use to convey better information.[85][7][86][87] |
2011 | June 21 | Search algorithm update | Google rolls out Panda 2.2.[7][88][89][90] |
2011 | July 23 | Search algorithm update | Google rolls out Panda 2.3.[7][91] |
2011 | August 12 | Search algorithm update | Google rolls out Panda 2.4, making Panda available in all languages around the world, except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.[7][92][93] |
2011 | August 16 | User experience | Google rolls out expanded sitelinks, starting with 12-pack links (but later reducing to 6-pack).[94][95][7] |
2011 | September 15 | Webmaster tools | Google rolls out pagination elements for websites to communicate to Google that various webpages are different pages of the same article.[96][97][7] |
2011 | September 30 | Search algorithm update | Google rolls out Panda 2.5.[7][98] Although the specifics of the update are unclear, a few sites gain significantly and a few others lose significantly.[99] Other minor flux updates occur on October 3, October 5 and October 13, and some commentators call these Panda 3.0 and 3.1.[7][100] |
2011 | October 18 | User experience, SEO data | Google announces that they will start encrypting all search queries for security purposes.[101] This disrupts organic keyword referral data for many websites, making search engine optimization harder.[102] |
2011 | November 3 | Search algorithm update | Google announces a Freshness update that would give priority to fresher, more recent search results, and claims this could affect 35% of search queries.[103][104][105] The algorithm largely affects time-sensitive queries. A number of sites gain and many others lose as a result of the update.[106] |
2011 | November 18 | Search algorithm update | Google releases an allegedly minor Panda update, which SEO commentators label as Panda 3.1, despite the lack of a generally agreed upon update named Panda 3.0.[7][107][108] |
2012 | December 2011-January 2012 (announced January 5) | Search algorithm update, user experience | A 30-change pack of updates, including landing-page quality detection, more relevant site-links, more rich snippets, and related-query improvements.[109] |
2012 | January 10 | Search algorithm update, user experience | Google launches Search Plus Your World, a deep integration of one's social data into search.[110][111]SEO commentators are critical of how the search results favor Google+ and push it to users, compared to more widely used social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.[112][113][114][115] |
2012 | January 19 | Search algorithm update | Google updates its algorithm to introduce a penalty for websites with too many ads "above the fold". The update has no name, but some SEOs use "Top Heavy" to describe the update.[7][116] |
2012 | February 27 | Search algorithm update | The update, codenamed Venice, was announced as part of Google's end-of-February 40-pack update. Venice seemed to give substantially increased weightage to local results (location inferred from the user's IP and other signals) for many search queries, such as those looking for businesses of various types in the vicinity.[7]Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
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