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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American multinational Internet and software corporation specialized in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. It hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates.
Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan coined by Google engineer Amit Patel and supported by Paul Buchheit is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google's rapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The company offers online productivity software, such as the Gmail email service, the Google Google Docs, Sheets and Slides office suite, and the Google+ social networking service. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications such as the Google Chrome web browser, the Google Photos photo organizing and editing software, and Google Talk instant messaging. Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system, found on specialized laptops called Chromebooks.
- ...that in addition to Google Earth, there is Google Mars, Moon, and Sky?
- ...that Google's latest design language, material design, was codenamed quantum paper?
- ...that the Google Summer of Code draws its name from the 1967 Summer of Love?
- ...that Google's 2005 April Fools' prank was announcing Google Gulp, a fictional drink?
- ...Google plans to provide internet access to rural and remote areas through balloons?
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, at the Web 2.0 Summit in 2005.
Celebrities always get a lot of interest and the passing of well-known figures makes people want to learn more about them. Despite that, some of the more traditional aspects of British life, from the Grand National to the royal birth, have generated many Google searches and will be remembered as events that have characterized the year. | ||
Claudine Beaumont, Google staff "Facebook tops Google searches for UK in 2013" from BBC |
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