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Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. Its motto is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services are provided. open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system have been developed recently. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while students at Stanford University. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. new products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond its core search engine.Many times became the Fortune Magazine's Number One Best Place to Work and most powerful brand in the world.
Founded Menlo Park, California
Founder(s) Sergey M. Brin
Lawrence E. Page
Headquarters Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
Key people
Eric E. Schmidt
(Chairman) & (CEO)
Sergey M. Brin
(Technology President)
Lawrence E. Page
(Products President)
Employees 19,665
Net income $ 4.227 billion
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of the word "googol"which refers to 10^100
History
Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.Their search engine had the system that checked backlinks to estimate the importance(page rank) of a site.Both Brin and Page had been against using advertising pop-ups in a search engine, or an "advertising funded search engines" but allowed simple text ads. The Google search engine attracted a loyal following among a growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design and useful results.A patent describing part of the Google ranking mechanism (PageRank) was granted on 4 September 2001.
Acquisitions
Google bought the online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.Google Earth acquired from Keyhole, Inc. Google agreed to buy the DoubleClick company for $3.1 billion.Bought Google agreed to buy the company for $3.1 billion.
Products and services
-Advertising 99% of Google's revenue is derived from its advertising programs.DoubleClick technology and Google Analytics are major. Google AdWords allows Web advertisers to display advertisements in Google's search results
Software
The Google web search engine is the company's most popular service.Image Search, Google News, the price comparison site Google Product Search, the interactive Usenet archive Google Groups, Google Maps, and moreare also available. Google Desktop, Picasa, SketchUp and Google Earth, were developed for desktop environment. Android, an operating system for mobiles. Google Translate aka Google Language Tools, Google Chrome, an open-source web browser, Google Chrome OS, an open-source Linux-based operating system are the few additions later.
Gmail
Gmail is a free webmail, POP3 and IMAP service provided by Google.Gmail runs on Google Servlet Engine and Google GFE/1.3 which run on Linux.It has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum.
For further details, visit:
http://en.wikipediawiki/Google