Happy 18th birthday Google

MUMBAI, INDIA: As Google turns 18 today, we turn back the wheels of time and take a look at some of the key milestones co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin crossed.

1997: Some of the key highlights include:

Google.com was registered as a domain on September 15, 1997. The name—a play on the word googol, a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.

2000: Some of the key highlights include:

* Google Mentalplex Circle—1st April fool trick

* It became the world’s largest search engine

* Launched Google AdWords with 350 customers

* Released Google Toolbar

2001: Some of the key highlights include:

* Launched Google Images, offered access to 250 million images

* Opened first international office in Tokyo

* Launched First annual Google Zeitgeist, a visual look at what millions of people searched for over year end

2002: Some of the key highlights include:

* Launched Google News with 4,000 news sources

2003: Some of the key highlights include:

* Acquired Blogger

* Launched Google Print now known as Google Books

2004: Some of the key highlights include:

* Launched Orkut

* Posted first ever Twitter post; a binary for “I’m feeling lucky”

* Launched Gmail on April Fools' Day.

* Opened new offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India

2005: Some of the key highlights include:

* Google Maps went live.

* Uploaded first video on YouTube

* Launched Google Mobile Web Search

* Launched Google Earth

* Launched Google Analytics

* Organized first Doodle 4 Google contest in the United Kingdom

2006: Some of the key highlights include:

* Launched Google Translate

* Released Google Earth, Google Trends

2007: Some of the key highlights include:

* Announced Android—the first open platform for mobile devices—and a collaboration with other companies in the Open Handset Alliance

2008: Some of the key highlights include:

* Hosted the first Google I/O, its annual developer conference, in San Francisco

* Released G1, the first Android-based smart phone

* Google Chrome available for download

2009: Some of the key highlights include:

* Launched voice search on Android

* Developed Google Chrome OS

* Introduced Google Maps Navigation

2010: Some of the key highlights include:

* Introduced the Nexus One

* Launched its first ever playable doodle in celebration of PAC-Man’s 30th birthday

* Launched Google Instant

2011: Some of the key highlights include:

* Received a record 75,000 job applications for 6,000 openings in the US;

* Google Art Project (now Google Cultural Institute) went live

* Over 1 billion unique visitors visited the Google website

* Brought offline access to Gmail, Calendar and Docs for people using Chrome

* Launched Google+ project

* Google Earth reached its 1 billion download milestone

* Android Market (now Google Play) exceeded 10 billion app downloads—with a growth rate of one billion app downloads per month.

2012: Some of the key highlights include:

* Launched Chrome on Android

* Launched Google Drive

* Announced Google Now

2013: Some of the key highlights include:

* Announced Google Project Loon (balloon-powered Internet access)

* Android passed 1 billion device activations

2014: Some of the key highlights include:

* Google Maps made available in Hindi; added Hindi voice navigation

* Introduced Android One in India

2015: Some of the key highlights include:

* Google Maps completed 10 years

* Adopted new logo and branding

* Turned 18

2020: Google expects 600 million online users with online videos being accessed by 500 million people.