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Revision as of 03:08, 17 December 2011
Google is a worldwide search, advertising, and service-based corporation. Google has distinguished itself from other companies by avoiding the "corporate" feel that tech startups tend to fall into after experiencing massive growth.
Contents
Mantra
"Don't be evil"
History
Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The two Standford grads founded the company on September 4th, 1998 in Menlo park, California and have since moved their headquarters to 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, California.
Their intention was to create a product to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". Since then the company has rapidly expanded and produced a suite of products far beyond the traditional search engine. The company now acquires companies on a regular basis and has entered into many different markets. It leads the production of the Android operating system, the Chrome browser, Google+, among many others.
Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Standford University where both were pursuing their PhD's in Human Computer Interaction. Google quickly became a project worth pursuing and the two decided to to run it full time.
After some Initial Financing, Google's initial public offering occurred on August 19, 2004 for $85 at 18,605,052 shares. With a starting market cap of $23 billion, the world started to realize that Google had some real potential. Today the company has 31,353 employees and total assets of $57.851 billion as of 2010.
Acquisitions
Since 2001, Google has acquired companies like Keyhole, Inc (later renamed to Google Earth), Youtube, DoubleClick, and GrandCentral. It has also formed partnerships with companies like NASA Ames Research Center, Sun Microsystems, AOL of Time Warner, Microsoft, Nokia, and Ericsson.
Data Centers
As of 2011, Google owns and operates 6 data centers in the United States, another in Finland, and another in Belgium. Additionally, Google plans on building another 3 data centers in Asia in the next two years.
Revenue
Advertising
Adwords
Google Products
Web
- Google Chrome
- Web Search
Mobile
Media
- Google Books
- Google Music
- Images
- News
- Picasa
- Picnik
- Videos
- YouTube
Geo
- Earth
- Google Offers
- Google Street View
- Latitude
- Maps
- Panoramio
- SketchUp
Home & Office
- Calendar
- Docs
- Gmail
- Google Health
- Google Wallet
- Sites
- Talk
- Translate
- Voice
Social
- Blogger
- Google+
- Groups
- Knol
- Orkut
- Reader
Innovation
- Fusion Tables
- Code
