About Google
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. It is a wholesole IT company which started by giving internet users a mere search engine, which was initially called “BackRub” , that used links to determine the importance of a individual webpages. Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google as a California privately held company on September 4, 1998, in California.Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet’s leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet’s Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of Alphabet.
Google in numbers
Google brought its IPO on August 14, 2004 and offered 19,605,052 shares at price of 85 USD per share, at NASDAQ stock exchange , and made market capitalization of more than 23 billion USD. As of yesterday, Google’s price per share closed at 581.70 USD. Google’s revenue is generated by the sale of advertisement space on its various websites and others websites, which constitutes a whopping 96.7% of whole of its revenue income. Google’s revenue for the financial year 2014 was 66,001,000,000 USD. Google employee strength as of 2019 is more than 114,096, all over the world. Google has 6 data centers in U.S. , one in Finland and one in Belgium and has plans to open 3 new data centers in Asian region(Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan) at a cost of more than 200 million USD.
Google Products
The company’s 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, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts, Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (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, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station)
Google.com is the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger.
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