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Google Search . For other uses, see Google (disambiguation) .
Google Inc.
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ : GOOG
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry Internet, Computer software
Founded Menlo Park , California, U.S.
(September 4, 1998 ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Founder(s) Larry Page , Sergey Brin
Headquarters Googleplex , Mountain View , California , United States
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$ 37.905 billion (2011) [ 3 ]
Operating income US$ 11.632 billion (2011) [ 3 ]
Profit US$ 9.737 billion (2011) [ 3 ]
Total assets US$ 72.574 billion (2011) [ 3 ]
Total equity US$ 58.145 billion (2011) [ 3 ]
Employees 53,546 (2012) [ 4 ]
Subsidiaries AdMob , DoubleClick , Motorola Mobility , On2 Technologies , Picnik , YouTube , Zagat
Website Google.com
References: [ 5 ]
Google Inc. ( NASDAQ : GOOG ) isan American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search , cloud computing , software and advertising technologies. [ 6 ] Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both attended Stanford University . Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The company's mission statement from the outset was"to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" [ 9 ] and the company's unofficialslogan is " Don't be evil ". [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In 2006, the company movedto its current headquarters in Mountain View, California .
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions , and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine . The company offers online productivity software including email , an office suite , and social networking . Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos , and instant messaging . Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system , as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system, [ 12 ] found on specialized netbooks called Chromebooks . Google has increasingly become ahardware company with its partnerships with major electronics manufacturers on its high-end Nexus series of devices and its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May 2012, [ 13 ] as wellas the construction of fiber-opticinfrastructure in Kansas City as part of the Google Fiber broadband Internet service project. [ 14 ]
Google has been estimated to runover one million servers in data centers around the world, [ 15 ] and process over one billion search requests [ 16 ] and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ]
As of October 2012 Alexa listed the main U.S.-focused google.comsite as the Internet's second most visited website, and numerous international Google sites as being in the top hundred,as well as several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger . [ 21 ] Google also ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database. [ 22 ] The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship. [ 23 ] [ 24 ]
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