Google is an American technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin specializing in internet services like search, advertising, and software. It provides popular online services such as Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Chrome and operates the Android mobile OS. Google continues to focus on innovation and improving the user experience through new products and services.

2. Characteristics
Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in
Internet-related services and products.
These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and
software.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D.
students at Stanford University.
It offers online productivity software (Google Docs) 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 (Google Chrome), organizing and editing photos (Picasa and Google+
Photos/Google Photos), and instant messaging (Hangouts).
The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system
and the browser-only Chrome OS for a class of netbooks known as
Chromebooks.
 Google became Alphabet's leading subsidiary, as well as the parent for
Google's Internet interests.

3. History
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford,
California.
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, & the
company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.
In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed one
billion for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931 million).
In January 2013, Google announced it had earned US$50 billion in annual
revenue for the year of 2012. This marked the first time the company had
reached this feat, topping their 2011 total of $38 billion.
The company has reported fourth quarter (Dec 2014) Earnings Per Share
(EPS) of $6.88 – $0.20 under projections. Revenue came in at $14.5 billion
(16.9% growth year over year), also under expectations by $110 million.

4. Products & Services
Google Search is a web search engine, which is Google's core product. It
receives over 3 billion search queries per day. Google also offers regional
search by its 189 regional level domains.
Google Finance – searchable US business news, opinion, and financial data.
Features include company-specific pages, blog search, interactive charts,
executives information, discussion groups and a portfolio.
Language Tools – Collection of linguistic applications, including one that allows
users to translate text or web pages from one language to another, and
another that allows searching in web pages located in a specific country or
written in a specific language.
Google AdSense – Offers a contextual advertising solution to web publishers,
and delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content
pages.
Blogger – weblog publishing tool. Users can create custom, hosted blogs with
features such as photo publishing, comments, group blogs, blogger profiles and
mobile-based posting with little technical knowledge.

5. Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (born in August 21,
1973) is a Russian-born American computer
scientist & internet entrepreneur who, with
Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the
most profitable Internet companies. As of
2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be
$16.7 billions.

6. Larry Page
Lawrence “Larry” Page (born in March 26,
1973) is an American computer scientist &
internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey
Brin, is best known as co-founder of Google.
On April 4, 2011, he took the role of the
Chief Executive Officer of Google, replacing
Eric Schmidt. As of 2011, his personal
wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billions.

7. Sundar Pichai
Pichai Sundararajan (born 1972),
better known as Sundar Pichai is
the Chief Executive
Officer of Google Inc. Formerly
Product Chief at Google, Pichai's
current role was announced on
August 10, 2015, as part of the
restructuring process which
made Alphabet Inc. into Google's
parent company. He assumed the
position upon the completion of
the process on October 2, 2015.

8. Hierarchy of Google Company

9. Vision Mission And Focus
The Vision
To make search engines so powerful they would understand “everything in the
world”.
The Mission
To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and
useful
The Focus
Google continues to focus on innovation and on the user experience.

10. How to get a job in Google India
Eligibility Criteria at Google
B.TECH:
You should maintain 65% marks throughout the academic career. It means 65 percent marks
in 10th, 12th and B.Tech course.
There should not be more than one year of gap between any courses.
There should not be any backlogs when applying for Google.
MCA
Please remember that similar to the B.Tech course, you would require maintaining 65%
marks throughout the academic career even when you apply for MCA course.
Google Placement Test will guide you for Google Placement in India
A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a strong academic record.
Good knowledge in Internet, web-research, online advertising, fraud detection, numerical
analysis and e-commerce is preferred.
Good written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with strong ability to work
cross-functionally and communicate clearly and effectively.

11. At the time of selection process, they conduct a test, which includes different sections. This
section includes
1. Questions from computer awareness
2. Verbal reasoning
3. Quantitative aptitude
4. Critical reasoning
and the standard of the questions depends upon the requirements.
The candidates who clear the written test are called for the interview.
It is a psychometric test, which is conducted to identify the personality, behavior, social
activities, qualities and values of the candidates. The candidates should be honest in their
answers because it is very important to check their ability.
Google Placement Interview
A person who is selected after the psychometric test will be called for a technical interview,
which includes questions from what they have studied before and about the project they have
undergone.
An HR interview will there after the preliminary interview which includes some personal
questions like what is the reason behind you to choose Google, your personal interests etc.

12. Interesting facts about Google
• If you search “Askew” in Google, the content will tilt slightly to the right.
• When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company
for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.
• Google intends to scan all known existing 129 Million unique books before 2020.
• Every minute, 2 million searches are performed on Google.
• Because Gmail first launched on April 1st of 2004, many people thought it was
an April Fool’s Day prank.
• On August 16, 2013, Google went out for five minutes and in that time, the
global internet traffic dropped by 40%.
• 57% of American Kids say “Google” as their first word.
• 620 Million visitors visit google.com daily.

13. Google Doddle
• A Google Doodle is a special,
temporary alteration of the logo
on Google's homepage that is
intended to celebrate holidays,
events, achievements and
people.
• The first Google Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man
Festival of 1998 and was designed by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin.

14. Conclusion
The Google Company founded in 1998, Google is an American multinational
corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.
The company is not just about technology, it also about connecting people.
It provides various services like Gmail, Google+, Google drive etc. which are
widely being used by people around the world.
It is a growing company with an 16.9% growth per year.
In the following years to come the company will flourish more and innovate
many other ideas and services for the well being of the people.
Thank You and keep Googling….