1995 - 1999

Blogger was one of the early blogging website to emerge. It allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. The website was purchased by Google in 2003 who hosts the blogs on a subdomain of blogspot.com.

Google entered the search engine market in 1997 with its own PageRank algorithm, which is used to order the search results. Google Search is the most used search engine in the world with 64.5% of the market share.
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google’s core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service

Amazon is now one of the world's largest e-commerce retailers. Initially released in 1995 starting off as an online bookstore, Amazon now offers many products and services from DVDs and CDs, to software and cloud-computing.

eBay was one of the first e-commerce companies. Providing an online marketplace for people to buy and sell goods and services.

Hotmail was one of the first webmail services, being founded in 1997. It’s popularity convinced Microsoft to purchase it in 1997 for $400 million turning it into MSN Hotmail, then Windows Live Hotmail and now it is known as Outlook.com.

Yahoo! expanded their company from just being a search engine by releasing their free email service. Yahoo! Mail now is the 7th most used email client in the world.

PayPal is an online payments system which stores and safeguards your bank card details, enabling you to pay online without entering your sensitive financial information every time you shop. Founded in 1998, it was bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.