Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, FWB: GGQ1) is a multinational public cloud computing,Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products,[5] and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program.[2][6] The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys",[7][8][9] while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and itsinitial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The company's stated mission from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful",[10] and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit – is Don't be evil.[11][12] In 2006, the company moved to their current headquarters in Mountain View,California.
Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world,[13] and processes over one billion search requests[14] and twenty petabytes of user-generated data every day.[15][16][17]Google's rapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions andpartnerships beyond the company's core search engine. The company offers online productivitysoftware, such as its Gmail e-mail software, and social networking tools, including Orkut and, more recently, Google Buzz. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications such as the web browser Google Chrome, the Picasa photo organization and editing software, and the Google Talk instant messaging application. Notably, Google leads the development of the Android mobile phone operating system, used on a number of phones such as the Nexus One and Motorola Droid. Because of its popularity and numerous products, Alexa lists Google as the Internet's most visited website.[18] Google is also Fortune Magazine's fourth best place to work,[19] and BrandZ's most powerful brand in the world.[20] The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship.[21][22]
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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: GOOG,FWB: GGQ1) | |
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| Industry | Internet, Computer software | |
| Founded | Menlo Park, California(September 4, 1998)[1] | |
| Founder(s) | Sergey M. Brin Lawrence E. Page | |
| Headquarters | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,Mountain View, California,United States | |
| Area served | Worldwide | |
| Key people | Eric E. Schmidt (Chairman & CEO) Sergey M. Brin (Technology President) Lawrence E. Page (Products President) | |
| Products | See list of Google products. | |
| Revenue | ▲US$23.651 billion (2009)[2][3] | |
| Operating income | ▲US$8.312 billion (2009)[2][3] | |
| Profit | ▲US$6.520 billion (2009)[2][3] | |
| Total assets | ▲US$40.497 billion (2009)[2][3] | |
| Total equity | ▲US$36.004 billion (2009)[3] | |
| Employees | 21,805 (2010)[4] | |
| Subsidiaries | YouTube, DoubleClick, On2 Technologies, GrandCentral,Picnik, Aardvark, AdMob | |
| Website | Google.com Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Брин; born August 21, 1973) is aRussian American computer scientist and industrialist[5] who, along with Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet company, based on itssearch engine and online advertising technology.[6] Brin immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union at the age of six. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, he followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, whom he quickly befriended. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D studies to start up Google in a rented garage. The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment Man", and someone who believes that "knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance", a philosophy that is summed up by Google’s motto of making all the world’s information "universally accessible and useful"[7] and "Don't be evil".
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