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Ten years ago today, Google Maps launched to the world. When it was born, it was a paper atlas in living form, with no pages to turn. Instead of online mapping leader MapQuest’s printable list...
Feb 10, 2015 · The Google Maps founders didn’t invent the name, but they were among the first to apply the technologies that became the cornerstone of the Web 2.0 renaissance in late 2004, a reboot of the old ...
Sep 27, 2021 · When the company introduced Maps in 2005, it said “Maps can be useful and fun.” During the same year, Google bought Android for $50 million in 2005. In 2006, the company outbid Microsoft, Viacom and Yahoo for YouTube and bought the company for $1.65 billion.
The company launched Google News in 2002, Gmail in 2004, Google Maps in 2005, Google Chrome in 2008, and the social network known as Google+ in 2011 (which was shut down in April 2019), in addition to many other products.
Google Maps first started as a C++ program designed by two Danish brothers, Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, and Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma, at the Sydney-based company Where 2 Technologies, which was founded in early 2003.
A comprehensive visual history of Google Maps from 2004 to 2024. See a gallery of the Google Maps evolution from the beginning to present day.