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As of 2025, Google has 15 products with over half a billion users each, and seven of those products have over 2 billion users.
For the full year of 2005, Google's revenue was $6.1 billion, nearly double its $3.1 billion revenue in 2004, but its earnings remained flat.
In January 2006, Google's stock price fell 27% following an earnings report that showed increased spending on new products like Gmail and Maps.
At its launch on April 1, 2004, Gmail offered one gigabyte of free storage, significantly more than competitors like Hotmail (2 MB) and Yahoo Mail (4 MB).
Gmail was one of the first widely adopted web applications to use the XMLHttpRequest feature in JavaScript, pioneering the technique that would become known as Ajax.
In the early 2000s, over 90% of Google search queries were conducted on Windows PCs, with 90% of those occurring within Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
As of 2025, Gmail has grown to over 2 billion users.
Google released the Google Maps API in 2006, a key catalyst for the Web 2.0 era that enabled companies like Zillow, Uber, and Airbnb.
Google Maps has over 2 billion active users and is estimated to generate between $5 billion and $10 billion in annual revenue.
In 2024, Microsoft's Productivity and Business Process segment generated over $120 billion in revenue, while Google's entire Cloud segment, which includes Workspace, generated approximately $50 billion.
Google acquired YouTube in November 2006 for $1.65 billion in an all-stock transaction.
Shortly after its acquisition by Google, YouTube was generating approximately $30 million in annual revenue while losing about $1 billion per year.