The Google homepage that we used in those years

September 28, Google today ushered in its own 16 birthday. The pilot project, which was born 16 years ago at Stanford University, has changed the lives of countless people today. In fact, the change is not only the life of billions of Google users, Google home also in the past 16 years quietly changed.

September 28, Google today ushered in its own 16 birthday. The pilot project, which was born 16 years ago at Stanford University, has changed the lives of countless people today. In fact, the change is not only the life of billions of Google users, Google home also in the past 16 years quietly changed.

1997, Google is still in prototype state. Stanford University is reading Dr. Larry Page and Sergey to create this site.

Google evolved into a beta version in 1998, and in September, Google was formed as a private company.

1999, Google began to grow fast. As a result of innovation in Network application development, Google also won the "Technical Excellence Award" awarded by PC Magazine Magazine.

2000, Google added more features to support more languages. In addition, Google also on-line advanced search and Critical adwords advertising keyword features.

2001, Google launched the "Google Group" feature, users can post discussions.

2002, Google launched the "Google News", in addition to the different functions in the form of "label" on the home page.

2003, Google home relatively flat, did not appear too big change.

2004, Google adjusted the service tag on the first page, removed the gray background after the label, and added underline for the text. In addition, Google also launched a control shopping information site Froogle,froogle to provide customers with shopping information and advice, Google from each transaction to draw a certain percentage of commission in return.

2005, Google launched the localization service "Google local".

2006, Google also launched a map and video search two major business, in addition to the introduction of Google Personalized home page.

2007, personalized home page changed to "IGoogle".

In 2008, Google placed the user's privacy agreement on the homepage of the website for increasingly sensitive user privacy issues. In addition, options such as pictures and maps above the search box are moved to the top left of the page

Corner, Google home more concise and clear.

In the 2009, search settings were also placed on Google's homepage. Click on the "Search Settings" in the upper right corner, users can set the search term directly.

2010, Google adjusted the homepage of the "Google" logo, the use of the past to eliminate the shadow element. In addition, Google also canceled the search box to the right of the "Advanced Settings" and "language tool" underline.

2011, the top of Google Home area added a black background.

In 2012, Google added the + + button to the top left corner of the home page, starting to guide its own social network. In addition, advertising programs, business plans and other content was moved to the bottom right corner of Google's home page.

2013, Google + +, Gmail, image search and other commonly used functions in the top right corner of the page, other features are concentrated in the square function tag.

2014, Google home page in the lower right corner fine-tuning, "advertising", "Business" and "about" was transferred to the lower left corner of the home page.