Company history: Google

1-Put the different events in chronological order. Use dates from the box.
Then tell the story using full sentences, with active and passive verb forms.

1995 1996 1998 2015 2003 2004 2006 2014 2019 April 2023

2006: addition of the verb « google » to the Oxford English Dictionary; acquisition of YouTube*
* founded in 2005

… : development of the PageRank algorithm (research project)

… : acquisition of DeepMind* * British AI research company founded in 2010, London-based

2015: appointment of Sundar Pichai, current CEO

… : foundation of Google Inc.
… : €50 million fine by French data regulator CNIL for breaching GDPR*
*GDPR adopted in 2016, enforced since May 2018

… : launch of initial public offering (IPO)

--> nearly 20 m. shares offered, initial share price = $ 85, almost $1.7 bn raised
listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange
… : meeting of Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University
… : merger of DeepMind and Google Brain (a Google AI research team) → Google DeepMind
clue: a few months after the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI

2003: move to Mountain View (current location)

2-Watch the Newsy video and find out what happened on Friday Oct. 2 2015.
Oct. 2 2015: …

Watch again and take notes:

a)(Potential) advantages of this change:

b) Google’s motto = ...

… motto = « Do the right thing »