The Googleplex, Google's original and largest

corporate campus
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: GOOG
(http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol
/goog)
NASDAQ: GOOGL
(http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol
/googl)
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry Internet
Computer software
Telecoms equipment
Founded Menlo Park, California
(September 4, 1998)
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Founder(s) Larry Page, Sergey Brin
Headquarters Googleplex, Mountain View,
California, U.S.
[3]
Area served Worldwide
Key people Larry Page (CEO)
Eric Schmidt (Chairman)
Sergey Brin
Products See list of Google products
Google Inc.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Google is an American multinational corporation
specializing in Internet-related services and products. These
include online advertising technologies, search, cloud
computing, and software.
[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 at Stanford University. Together
they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 of the
stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They
incorporated Google as a privately held company on
September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed 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".
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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 software
including 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 mobile operating system and
the browser-only Chrome OS
[13]
for a netbook known as a
Chromebook. 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 (as of
2007)
[16]
and to process over one billion search requests
[17]
and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data each day (as
of 2009).
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In December 2013 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
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Revenue
US$ 59.825 billion (2013)
[4]
US$ 50.175 billion (2012)
[4]
Operating
income
US$ 13.966 billion (2013)
[4]
US$ 12.76 billion (2012)
[4]
Net income
US$ 12.92 billion (2013)
[4]
US$ 10.737 billion (2012)
[4]
Total assets
US$ 110.92 billion (2013)
[5]
US$ 93.798 billion (2012)
[4]
Total equity
US$ 87.309 billion (2013)
[5]
US$ 71.715 billion (2012)
[4]
Employees
49,829 (Q1 2014)
[6]
Subsidiaries AdMob, DoubleClick, On2
Technologies, Picnik, YouTube, Zagat,
Waze, Blogger, SlickLogin, Boston
Dynamics, Bump, Nest Labs,
DeepMind Technologies, WIMM One,
VirusTotal
Website google.com (http://google.com)
as YouTube and Blogger.
[22]
Its market dominance has led
to prominent media coverage, including criticism of the
company over issues such as copyright, censorship, and
privacy.
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1 History
1.1 Financing and initial public offering
1.2 Growth
1.3 2013 onward
1.4 Acquisitions and partnerships
1.5 Google data centers
2 Products and services
2.1 Advertising
2.2 Search engine
2.3 Productivity tools
2.4 Enterprise products
2.5 Other products
3 Corporate affairs and culture
3.1 Employees
3.2 Googleplex
3.3 Easter eggs and April Fools' Day jokes
3.4 Philanthropy
3.5 Tax avoidance
3.6 Environment
3.7 Lobbying
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Google began in J anuary 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD
students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
[26]
While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the
page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites.
[27]
They called
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