Google - 10 years in pictures

November 11 2000: Google's co-founders, CEO Larry Page, left, and Chairman Sergey Brin, rest on bean bags at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google replaced Inktomi as Yahoo's search engine in June 2000 Photograph: Randi Lynn Beach/AP

The home where Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin rented the garage in 1998 to set up Google in Menlo Park, California. Reportedly, Google purchased the 1,900 square foot house where they used to rent out the garage from Susan Wojcicki for $1,700 (£961) a month Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

January 15 2004: Google co-founders Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin are seen at company headquarters in Mountain View, California. Brin and Page became multi-billionaires after the online search engine leaders' stock goes public Photograph: Ben Margot//AP

August 19 2004: Google CFO George Reyes, chairman of the executive committee and CEO Eric E. Schmidt, senior vice president of worldwide sales & field operations Omid Kordestani, co-founder and president of products Larry Page, NASDAQ president and CEO Robert Greifeld and Google vice president for corporate development David Drummond, participate in a ceremony as Google is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange for the first time Photograph: Getty

January 6, 2006: Google co-founder Larry Page stands in front of an image of jumbled adaptors and power cords as he delivers a keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty

February 20 2006: Google honchos, from top, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin on the cover of Time magazine Photograph: David Strick/Getty

April 12 2006: People poke their heads through a Google logo shortly after Google debuts its Chinese language brand name "Gu Ge" in Beijing, China Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP

May 10 2006: A Google employee rides a Go-Ped scooter (used by all the employees) across the company campus in Mountain View, California Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty

June 15 2006: Google's two new computing centres (each the size of a football field) are seen from the air in The Dalles, Oregon Photograph: Craig Mitchelldyer/Getty

October 10 2006: Google bought YouTube, the popular online video website where users can upload and watch videos for free, for $1.65bn Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

June 19 2007: Chad Hurley (L) and Steve Chen, co-founders of YouTube, pose after a news conference in Paris. Hurley and Chen announced that the nine country sites will eventually feature locally popular content Photograph: Philippe Wojazer /Reuters

June 18 2007: A man views solar panels on a roof at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google announced that they have switched on a solar panel installation at its headquarters which will help reduce the company's carbon footprint. Company electric hybrid cars are also charged from rooftop solar panels Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters

Google Earth view of Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California Photograph: Public domain

Google maps on an Apple iPhone Photograph: Alex Segre/Rex Features

August 22 2007: Samuel Widmann, head of maps, Google Switzerland, speaks during a presentation of the new Google feature 'Google Sky' at the planetarium in Hamburg, Germany. Popular mapping service Google Earth will launch a new feature called Sky, a "virtual telescope" which enables users to float and zoom in on over 100m individual stars and 200m galaxies, that the search engine hopes will turn millions of internet users into stargazers Photograph: Christian Charisius/Reuters

Google mail Photograph: Alex Segre/Rex Features

May 21 2008: Google vice president Vinton Cerf, often referred to as the "father of the internet", at the 16th World Congress on Information Technology in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Photograph: Tengku Bahar/AFP

June 23, 2008: Employees of Google work at a "tech stop" at the internet company's new office space in Chelsea Market in New York City. The new space, which is across the street from the older Google office, will house around 300 employees bringing the total number of Google employees in New York City to around 1,500 Photograph: pencer Platt/Getty

September 2 2008: The logo for the Google Chrome Web browser. Google is releasing the web browser in a long-anticipated move aimed at countering the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and ensuring easy access to its market-leading search engine Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP

August 27 2008: A Google Doodle entry is shown at the Doodle Museum at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google on September 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an internet search engine could change the world Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP