2005

      March: Google acquires Urchin, a Web analytics company whose technology is used to create Google Analytics.

      April: Google introduces Site Targeting for AdWords, which allows advertisers to target their ads to specific content sites throughout the Google network.

      August: One year after its IPO, Google announces plans to sell 14,159,265 more shares of its stock, which doubles Google’s cash stockpile to $7 billion.

      December: A Pew Research study reveals that for the first time, search has tied with email as the number one activity among Internet users.

2006

      January: The company acquires dMarc Broadcasting, a digital solutions provider for radio broadcasting that allows advertisers to connect directly to radio stations using an automated advertising platform.  The technology is integrated with AdWords to provide a radio ad distribution channel for Google advertisers.

      January: Google complies with China, raising concerns that Google capitulated to the Chinese government.

     January: Google launches a video store, without video, in an effort to become the video kingpin. It will take about 10 months before Google buys the video kingpin - YouTube.

      March: Google acquires Writely, a Web-based word processing application that is used to create Google Docs.

      June: The word “google” is officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb.

      October: Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction.

2007

      February: Google makes Gmail (previously invitation-only) accessible to all.  Also in February, then-senator Hilary Clinton is the first of several presidential candidates to visit the Googleplex in the Candidates@Google speaker series.

      June: The Google Maps app gets prime placement on the first Apple iPhone.  Also in June, YouTube becomes available in nine more domains around the world, including Brazil, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, The Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Poland, and France.

      October: Google shares go beyond the $600 mark for the first time.

      November: Google announces Android, the first open platform for mobile devices.

      December: The Queen of England launches the Royal Channel on YouTube, becoming the first monarch to create her own channel.

2008

      April: According to comScore, Google surpasses Yahoo for the first time in the number of unique monthly visitors.  ComScore’s data says that Google sites had 141.1 million unique visitors while Yahoo had 140.6 million.  Nielsen Online, however, claims that its data showed that Google passed Yahoo up in January of 2007.  Yahoo still leads with the amount of time users spent on its sites, however, with 3 hours and 9 minutes per month compared to Google’s 1 hour and 47 minutes.

      July: Google now indexes one trillion unique URLs.

      August: YouTube surpasses Yahoo to become the number two search engine, seeing more search traffic than Yahoo, with Google at the number one spot, which effectively means that Google, Inc. holds the top two spots for most used search engines.

2009

      January: The Vatican launches a YouTube channel.

      February: Google surpasses Coca Cola to become the second most valuable brand in the world, according to analysts at Brand Finance.  The company beats out Microsoft and IBM, but comes in second to Wal-Mart.

      March: The White House holds an online Town Hall to take questions submitted on Google Moderator.

      April: Over 90 musicians from around the world perform in the first-ever YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

      August: The company is valued at $140 billion five years after its IPO, when it was valued at $27 billion. Also in August, data from comScore reveals that 161 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month of August, the largest audience ever recorded.  More than 25 billion videos were viewed, with 10 billion coming from Google Sites.

2010

      March: Google stops censoring results in China.

      May: Google’s Android operating system beats out Apple’s iPhone operating system for the number two spot in the U.S. smartphone market, both coming in behind RIM's BlackBerry OS.

      June: In an effor to work the the Chinese authorities, Google ends automatic redirection to Hong Kong site for Chinese mainland Internet users.

      September: Google leads all other major technology companies by acquiring 23 companies in 2010, compared to IBM’s 12, Facebook’s 6, and Microsoft’s 0.

      Conclusion: Obviously, this list is only a smattering of Google’s accomplishments since its inception.  For all the cutesy “baby Google” talk, it’s less of a bumbling Baby Huey and more of a turbo-charged super cyborg baby that ruthlessly annihilates the competition. 

Source from Vator News