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Google Is An American

Google is an American multinational corporation that specializes in internet services like search engines, advertising, software, and cloud computing. It generates most of its profits from AdWords, an online advertising service. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has since expanded into many other products and services like Gmail, Google Drive, Android, and YouTube. It is considered the world's largest and most popular search engine.

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Google Is An American

Google is an American multinational corporation that specializes in internet services like search engines, advertising, software, and cloud computing. It generates most of its profits from AdWords, an online advertising service. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has since expanded into many other products and services like Gmail, Google Drive, Android, and YouTube. It is considered the world's largest and most popular search engine.

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Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and

products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.
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Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,[9][10] an online advertising service that places

advertising near the list of search results.


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 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 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,"[11]and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil."[12][13] In 2004, Google moved to
its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.[14]
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),
a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite(Google Docs) and a social networking
service (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[15] for a netbook known as
a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with
major electronics manufacturers[16] in the production of its "high-quality low-cost"[17] Nexus devices
and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012.[18] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed
in Kansas City to facilitate aGoogle Fiber broadband service.[19]
The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the
world (as of 2007);[20] and to process over one billion search requests,[21] and about 24 petabytes of
user-generated data, each day (as of 2009).[22][23][24][25] 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 as YouTube and Blogger.[26] Its market
dominance has led to prominent media coverage, including criticism of the company over issues
such as search neutrality, copyright, censorship, and privacy.[27][28]

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