Google

Google Inc.
Company type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: GOOG; NASDAQ-100 Component; S&P 500 Component
Industry	Internet; Computer software; Telecoms equipment
Founded	Menlo Park, California; (September 4, 1998)
Founder	Sergey Brin, Larry Page
Headquarters	Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Joseph Bailey (Co-founder); Eric Schmidt; (Executive Chairman); Larry Page; (Co-founder & CEO); Sergey Brin (Co-founder)
Products	See list of Google products
Revenue	US$ 59.82 billion (2013)
Operating income	US$ 13.96 billion (2013)
Net income	US$ 12.92 billion (2013)
Total assets	US$ 110.92 billion (2013)
Total equity	US$ 87.30 billion (2013)
Number of employees	47,756 (Q4 2013)
Parent	Alphabet Inc.
Subsidiaries	AdMob, DoubleClick, On2 Technologies, Picnik, YouTube, Zagat, Waze, Blogger, SlickLogin, Boston Dynamics, Bump, Google DeepMind, WIMM One, VirusTotal, X Development, Motorola Mobility, Google.org, Google Store, Keyhole, Inc, Google China, ITA Software, ImageAmerica, Kaltix Corp., FeedBurner, Google Nest, Neotonic Software, PeakStream, Postini, Google Affiliate Network, dMarc Broadcasting, Google Workspace, Google Cloud Platform, GV, Endoxon, GoogleLLC, BufferBox, Google (Switzerland), Google (Ireland), Google Canada, Google Voice, Waymo, Google Nest, Google Ads, Urchin Software Corporation, Google Poland, Fitbit, Google Open Source, Planetary Ventures, Google Japan G.K.
Website	google.com
	Footnotes / references;

Google Inc. is a multinational corporation from the United States. It is known for creating and running one of the largest search engines on the World Wide Web (WWW). Every day more than 200 million (200,000,000) people use it. Google's headquarters (called the "Googleplex") is in Mountain View, California, part of the Silicon Valley.

Since October 2, 2015, Google is owned by a new holding company called Alphabet Inc, which has taken over some of Google's other projects, such as its driverless cars. It is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ under the tickers GOOG and GOOGL.

Google's search engine can find pictures, videos, news, Usenet newsgroups, and things to buy online. By June 2004, Google had 4.28 billion web pages on its database, 880 million (880,000,000) pictures and 845 million (845,000,000) Usenet messages — six billion things.^[source?] Google's American website has an Alexa rank of 1, meaning it is the most widely visited website in the world. It is so widely known that people are using the word "google" as a verb that means "to search for something on Google"; but because more than half of people on the web use it, "google" has been used to mean "to search the web".

History

Google was started in early 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University, USA. It used to be called Backrub. they made it into a company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. In February 1999, the company moved to 165 University Ave., Palo Alto, California. it moved to another place called the Googleplex.

In September 2001, Google's rating system (PageRank, for saying which information is more helpful) got a U.S. Patent. The patent was to Stanford University, with Lawrence (Larry) Page as the inventor (the person who first had the idea).

Google makes a percentage of its money through America Online and InterActiveCorp. It has a special group known as the Partner Solutions Organization (PSO) which helps make contracts, helps making accounts better, and gives engineering help.

How Google makes money

Google makes money by advertising. People or companies who want people to buy their product, service, or ideas give Google money, and Google shows an advertisement to people Google thinks will click on the advertisement. Google only gets money when people click on the link, so it tries to know as much about people as possible to only show the advertisement to the "right people". It does this with Google Analytics, which sends data back to Google whenever someone visits a web site. From this and other data, Google makes a profile about the person, which it then uses to figure out which advertisements to show.

The name "Google"

The name "Google" is a misspelling of the word googol.^[7]^[8] Milton Sirotta, nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner, made this word in 1938, for the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes ( $10^{100}$ ). It is said that the word "googol" was chosen as a name for this number because it sounded like baby talk.^[source?]

Google uses this word because the company wants to make lots of stuff on the Web easy to find and use. Andy Bechtolsheim thought of the name.

The name for Google's main office, the "Googleplex," is a play on a different, even bigger number, the "googolplex", which is 1 followed by one googol of zeroes.

Google's products

Android is an operating system for mobile devices and was originally made by Google as part of the Open Handset Alliance, which Google leads. It is the chief competitor to Apple's iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone by Microsoft.
Froogle (Now renamed to Google Product Search) lets the user find out about things for sale on the Internet. Its name is a combination of "Google" and "frugal", which means smart with money.
Google Books lets people search for books.
Google Calendar is an online calendar.
Google Checkout is a way to pay online. Users can send money using their credit cards or bank accounts to other users.
Google Chrome is a web browser that Google made
Google Dictionary is a dictionary that can be in many languages.
Google Drive is an online document editor.
Google Earth is the 3D version of Google Maps with a digital globe.
Google Groups is a place for users to discuss topics.
Google Images is an image search utility.
Google Language Tools; Google Translate is an online translation service. It can translate websites and text into other languages.
Gmail is an e-mail service that Google started in 2004. It is called Google Mail in the United Kingdom and Germany. Users get free space to store e-mail.
Google News is a facility which shows news stories from over 4,500 news sources. Google News Archives
Google Maps is a service from Google to provide satellite pictures and road maps for everywhere around the world.
Google Pack is a pack of Google software.
Google Talk is an instant messenger where you can talk to friends.
Google Video is an online collection of videos which have been uploaded by users from around the world.
Google Knol was an online encyclopedia.
Google Picasa is a software for organizing and editing photos.
Google Sites is a service for making websites.
Google Wave was a software for discussing with other people live.
Google Buzz was an update and photo sharing service.
Google Alerts Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
Google Adsense is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn money.
Google Analytics is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
Google Base is the "Google Merchant Center", where you can upload your product feeds and make them easy to find on Google Product Search.
Blogger is a free tool that allows users to publish blogs on a Google website.
Google+ is a social networking service operated by Google Inc. that is like Facebook. The service launched on June 28, 2011.
YouTube is a video hosting service which was bought by Google from PayPal for 1.2 billion dollars and now runs as a Google service.

References

↑ "Company". Google. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
↑ Claburn, Thomas. "Google Founded By Sergey Brin, Larry Page... And Hubert Chang?!?". InformationWeek. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
↑ "Locations - Google Jobs". Google.com. Retrieved 2013-09-27.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 "Google Inc, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Jan 29, 2013". secdatabase.com. Retrieved Mar 8, 2013.
↑ "Google's Income Statement Information". Google.
↑ "Form 10-K". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2010. Part II, Item 6. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
↑ Koller, David. "Origin of the name, "Google." Stanford University. January, 2004.
↑ "Google revolution", How it Works, no. 37, Imagine Publishing, pp. 40–43, 2012-08-09

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[1] "Company". Google. Retrieved August 31, 2011.

[2] Claburn, Thomas. "Google Founded By Sergey Brin, Larry Page... And Hubert Chang?!?". InformationWeek. Retrieved August 31, 2011.

[3] "Locations - Google Jobs". Google.com. Retrieved 2013-09-27.

[Google-Inc-Jan-2013-10-K-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 "Google Inc, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Jan 29, 2013". secdatabase.com. Retrieved Mar 8, 2013.

[10K-5] "Google's Income Statement Information". Google.

[form_10-k-6] "Form 10-K". Washington, D.C.: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2010. Part II, Item 6. Retrieved June 29, 2011.

[7] Koller, David. "Origin of the name, "Google." Stanford University. January, 2004.

[hiw-8] "Google revolution", How it Works, no. 37, Imagine Publishing, pp. 40–43, 2012-08-09

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