| |  | Formally incorporated in a garage, the No. 1 search engine of today got its first
break in 1999 when competitor AltaVista relaunched itself as a portal,
thus alienating many of its users. It soon gathered loyal followers thanks to its efficiency and uncluttered design.
Innovations followed like selling advertisements associated with search keywords (2000), plans to digitise books in a library and make them searchable (2004),
Google Earth, which lets you visit any place on earth through satellite and airplane picture (2005) and a speciality search engine for blogs (2005). | | | | |
