Topic: `search-engine-history`

5 entries tagged search-engine-history.

Reference entries (5)

reference Google local-listings tool timeline: Google Local (March 2004) → Maps (2005) → Places (2009) → G+ Local (2012) → Google My Business (June 2014) → Google Business Profile (November 2021)
reference Google February 22, 2016 layout shift — right-rail text ads removed on desktop; up to four ads stacked above organic on commercial queries
reference Google AdWords launched October 23, 2000 with 350 advertisers; shifted from CPM to CPC auction in February 2002
reference GoTo.com (later Overture), 1998 — pioneered paid-placement auctions; the direct ancestor of AdWords
reference Research brief: How businesses got found on the web — a then→now timeline (Google-focused, SMB lens, June 2026)