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This article is about the corporation. For the search engine, see Google Search. For other uses, see Google (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Googol.
| 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)[1][2] |
| Founder(s) | Larry Page, Sergey Brin |
| Headquarters | Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.[3] |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Eric Schmidt (Executive Chairman) Larry Page (Co-founder & CEO) Sergey Brin (Co-founder) |
| Products | See list of Google products |
| Revenue |  US$ 50.18 billion (2012)[4] |
| Operating income | US$ 12.76 billion (2012)[4] |
| Profit | US$ 10.74 billion (2012)[4] |
| Total assets | US$ 93.80 billion (2012)[4] |
| Total equity | US$ 71.72 billion (2012)[4] |
| Employees | 44,777 (Q2 2013)[5] |
| Subsidiaries | AdMob, DoubleClick, Motorola Mobility, On2 Technologies, Picnik, YouTube, Zagat, Waze |
| Website | google.com |
| References: [6] | |
Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies.[7] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.[8][9]
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students atStanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offeringfollowed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful",[10] and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil".[11][12] 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 online productivity softwareincluding email (Gmail), an office suite (Google Drive), and social networking (Google+).Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobileoperating system and the browser-only Chrome OS[13] for a netbook known as aChromebook. 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.[14] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.[15]
The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world[16] and to process over one billion search requests[17] and about 24petabytes of user-generated data each day.[18][19][20][21] In December 2012 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 asYouTube and Blogger.[22] Its market dominance has led to criticism over issues includingcopyright, censorship, and privacy.[23][24]
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