Google is an American multinational
corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search,cloud computing,
and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.
Google was founded by Larry
Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students
at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares
but control 56 of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They
incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. Aninitial public
offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission
statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information
and make it universally accessible and useful, and its unofficial slogan
was "Don't be evil."In 2006 Google moved to headquarters
in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain
of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers onlineproductivity software including email (Gmail),
a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office
suite (Google Docs) and a social networking
service (Google+).Desktop products include applications for web
browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The
company leads the development of theAndroid mobile operating system and the
browser-only Chrome OS for a netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications
hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in production of its
high-end Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in
May 2012. In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed
in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband
service.
The corporation has been
estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world
(as of 2007)and to process over one billion search requests and about
24 petabytes of
user-generated data each day (as of 2009). In December 2013 Alexa listed
google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in
other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned
sites such as YouTube and Blogger. Its
market dominance has led to prominent media coverage, including criticism
of the company over issues such as copyright,censorship, and privacy.
"Google" name
"Google" came from the word "googol", which refers to the
amount of math that means the number 1 followed by 0, one hundred, or 10,100,
to reflect the company's goal to handle vast amounts of data. The current one
says that the name Google comes from errors in the domain name of the founder.
On 10 July 2548, Google won
in court. Other companies named in the lawsuit are close googkle.com
ghoogle.com and gooigle.com to call others to their site. Cause damage to the
reputation of Google.
(Google Talk)
(Google
Earth)
(Picasa)
(Google Pack)
(Google Chrome)
(SketchUp)
(Google Map)
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