Google

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the company. For the search engine, see Google
Search . For other uses, see Google (disambiguation).

"Google Inc." redirects here. For the parent company, see Alphabet Inc.

Not to be confused with Goggles or Googol .

Google Inc.


The

Googleplex headquarters in 2014

Type Subsidiary
Internet
Computer
Industry software
Computer hardware

September 4, 1998; 18
years ago
Founded
Menlo Park, California
[1][2]
Larry Page
Founders
Sergey Brin
Googleplex , Mountain
Headquarters View , California ,
U.S.[3]
Area served Worldwide
Key people Sundar Pichai (CEO )
Products List of Google products
Number of 57,100 (Q2 2015)[4]
 employees
Alphabet Inc.
Parent
(2015present)
Subsidiaries List of subsidiaries
Website www.google.com
Footnotes / references
[5]

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in

Internet -related services and products. These include online advertising
technologies, search , cloud computing , software , and hardware .

Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were
Ph.D. students at Stanford University , in California. Together, they own
about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder
voting power through supervoting stock . They incorporated Google as a
privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering
(IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new
headquarters in Mountain View, California , nicknamed the Googleplex .[6]

In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various

interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet's
leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for
Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure,
Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page , who became
CEO of Alphabet.[7][8][9][10]

Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products,

acquisitions , and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google
Search ). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google
Docs, Sheets and Slides ), email (Gmail /Inbox ), scheduling and time
management (Google Calendar ), cloud storage (Google Drive ), social
networking (Google+), instant messaging and video chat (Google Allo
/Duo /Hangouts ), language translation (Google Translate ), mapping and
turn-by-turn navigation (Google Maps ), video sharing (YouTube ),
notetaking (Google Keep ), and photo organizing and editing (Google
Photos ). The company leads the development of the Android mobile
operating system , the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS , a
lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has
moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with
major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus
devices,[11] and in October 2016, it launched multiple hardware products
(the Google Pixel smartphone, Home , Wifi , and Daydream View ).[12][13]
[14][15] The new hardware chief, Rick Osterloh, stated: "a lot of the
innovation that we want to do now ends up requiring controlling the end-
to-end user experience".[16]
Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet network operator.
In February 2010, it announced Google Fiber , a fiber-optic
infrastructure that was installed in Kansas City ;[17] in April 2015, it
launched Project Fi , combining Wi-Fi and cellular networks from
different providers in an effort to create a seamless and fast wireless
Internet experience;[18] and in 2016, the company launched the Google
Station initiative to make public "high-quality, secure, easily
accessible Wi-Fi" around the world, which had already been deployed in
India .[19]

An August 2011 report estimated that Google had almost one million
servers in data centers around the world.[20] It processed over one
billion search requests per day in 2009,[21] and about 20 petabytes of
data each day in 2008.[22][23][24]

Alexa , a company that monitors commercial web traffic, lists

Google.com as the most visited website in the world.[25] Several other
Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites,
including YouTube [26] and Blogger .[27] Google has been the second most
valuable brand in the world for 4 consecutive years,[28][29][30] and was
valued in 2016 at $133 billion.[31]

Google's mission statement , from the outset, was "to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible and useful," and its
unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil ".[32][33][34] In October 2015, the
motto was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the
phrase: "Do the right thing".[35]

Google's commitment to such robust idealism has been increasingly called

into doubt due to a number of the firm's actions and behaviours which
appear to contradict this.[36][37]

Google
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about the company. For the search engine, see Google
Search . For other uses, see Google (disambiguation).

"Google Inc." redirects here. For the parent company, see Alphabet Inc.

Not to be confused with Goggles or Googol .

Google Inc.


The
 Googleplex headquarters in 2014
Type Subsidiary
Internet
Computer
Industry software
Computer hardware

September 4, 1998; 18
years ago
Founded
Menlo Park, California
[1][2]
Larry Page
Founders
Sergey Brin
Googleplex , Mountain
Headquarters View , California ,
U.S.[3]
Area served Worldwide
Key people Sundar Pichai (CEO )
Products List of Google products
Number of
57,100 (Q2 2015)[4]
employees
Alphabet Inc.
Parent
(2015present)
Subsidiaries List of subsidiaries
Website www.google.com
Footnotes / references
[5]

Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in

Internet -related services and products. These include online advertising
technologies, search , cloud computing , software , and hardware .

Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were
Ph.D. students at Stanford University , in California. Together, they own
about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder
voting power through supervoting stock . They incorporated Google as a
privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering
(IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new
headquarters in Mountain View, California , nicknamed the Googleplex .[6]

In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various

interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet's
leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for
Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure,
Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page , who became
CEO of Alphabet.[7][8][9][10]

Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products,

acquisitions , and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google
Search ). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google
Docs, Sheets and Slides ), email (Gmail /Inbox ), scheduling and time
management (Google Calendar ), cloud storage (Google Drive ), social
networking (Google+), instant messaging and video chat (Google Allo
/Duo /Hangouts ), language translation (Google Translate ), mapping and
turn-by-turn navigation (Google Maps ), video sharing (YouTube ),
notetaking (Google Keep ), and photo organizing and editing (Google
Photos ). The company leads the development of the Android mobile
operating system , the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS , a
lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has
moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with
major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus
devices,[11] and in October 2016, it launched multiple hardware products
(the Google Pixel smartphone, Home , Wifi , and Daydream View ).[12][13]
[14][15] The new hardware chief, Rick Osterloh, stated: "a lot of the
innovation that we want to do now ends up requiring controlling the end-
to-end user experience".[16]

Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet network operator.

In February 2010, it announced Google Fiber , a fiber-optic
infrastructure that was installed in Kansas City ;[17] in April 2015, it
launched Project Fi , combining Wi-Fi and cellular networks from
different providers in an effort to create a seamless and fast wireless
Internet experience;[18] and in 2016, the company launched the Google
Station initiative to make public "high-quality, secure, easily
accessible Wi-Fi" around the world, which had already been deployed in
India .[19]

An August 2011 report estimated that Google had almost one million
servers in data centers around the world.[20] It processed over one
billion search requests per day in 2009,[21] and about 20 petabytes of
data each day in 2008.[22][23][24]

Alexa , a company that monitors commercial web traffic, lists

Google.com as the most visited website in the world.[25] Several other
Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites,
including YouTube [26] and Blogger .[27] Google has been the second most
valuable brand in the world for 4 consecutive years,[28][29][30] and was
valued in 2016 at $133 billion.[31]

Google's mission statement , from the outset, was "to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible and useful," and its
unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil ".[32][33][34] In October 2015, the
motto was replaced in the Alphabet corporate code of conduct by the
phrase: "Do the right thing".[35]

Google's commitment to such robust idealism has been increasingly called

into doubt due to a number of the firm's actions and behaviours which
appear to contradict this.[36][37]