Google.com was created 20 years ago — here’s what it looked like when it first launched (GOOG, GOOGL)

Google.com was registered 20 years ago, on September 15, 1997, according to Icann, the organization that regulates domain names.  Google acknowledged the domain name milestone in a tweet on Friday:  Tweet Embed:https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/908742851873460224Happy domain-iversary! Celebrating 20 years since we registered https://t.co/ePnBWEpWpj with a whooole lot of o’s. pic.twitter.com/FQh30rSDDk However, Google didn’t launch its webpage until a year […]

Google denies claims of a desktop Google.com revamp

Enlarge / Yahoogle. Google’s homepage has been a stark white page for basically ever, with little more than a search box and a few buttons to get users to a search results page as fast as possible. Yesterday, a report from The Guardian claimed this would be changing, and Google would be adding a “news feed” to “Google.com.” The Google […]