Google History Quiz

When was Google officially founded?

September 4^th, 1998 – A pair of Ph.D. students from Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created the Google search engine. Google originally started as a research project whose aim was to find relevant search results using a mathematical algorithm.

• 1995
• 1998
• 2002
• 2003

Who were the two founders of Google?

• Larry Brynner and Sergey Pager
• Larry Page and Bill Gates
• Mark Zuckerberg a Sergey Brin
• Larry Page and Sergey Brin

From which year is the Google website?

• 1996
• 2001
• 2005
• 2012

In which year did Google Doodle first appear?

The first ever Google Doodle of August 30, 1998 celebrated the Burning Man Festival.

• 1994
• 1998
• 2005
• 2009

Which painter's birthday does this Google Doodle celebrate?

• Claude Monet's 161st Birthday
• Vincent van Gogh's 152nd Birthday
• Paul Klee's 139th Birthday
• Wassily Kandinsky's 148th Birthday

In what year did Google launch Google Analytics?

November 14^th, 2005 – In April 2005, Google took over the Urchin Software Corporation, which was developing a tool for the acquisition of statistical data about website users. In November 2005, Google launched an enhanced version of this tool under the name Google Analytics.

• 1998
• 2001
• 2005
• 2014

Which famous person's birthday does this Google Doodle celebrate?

• Fernão de Magalhães
• Christopher Columbus
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• William Shakespeare

In which year was the first version of Google Chrome released?

September 2^nd, 2008 – Google released the beta version of Google Chrome's freeware browser for Windows. In December 2008, the first stable version of Google Chrome 1.0 was released.

• 1999
• 2008
• 2014
• 2016

In which year were Google Maps launched?

• 1998
• 2002
• 2005
• 2011

What was the size of the email inbox which Gmail offered for free when it was launched in 2004?

• 10MB
• 1GB
• 50GB
• 100GB