Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 in California. Sundar Pichai became CEO of Google in 2015 and led the reorganization of Google under a new parent company called Alphabet, which is headed by Page and Brin. Google's services include search engines, Android, Gmail, YouTube, and more.
1. Founder : Larry Page &
Sergey Brin
Founded: 4th Sept, 1998
Headquarter: California, USA
* Google
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3. Pichai was born in Madras
(now Chennai), Tamil Nadu,
India in 1972.
He is a technology executive
who is Chief Executive
Officer of Google Inc. Formerly
Product Chief at Google.
Pichai was announced as the
next Chief Executive Officer of
Google on August 10, 2015, as
part of the restructuring
process making Alphabet
Inc. Google's parent company.
He assumed the position upon
the completion of the process
on October 2, 2015.
5. Google began in January 1996 as a research
project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new
search engine "BackRub“.
They changed the name to Google,
originating from a misspelling of the word
“googol”
A googol is the large number 10100. In
decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1
followed by one hundred 0s:
100000000000000000000000000000000000
000000000000000000000000000000000000
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6. The domain name for Google was registered
on September 15, 1997
and the company was incorporated on
September 4, 1998.
During the period from 1998 to 2015 Google
has acquired many of the companies
worldwide and acting as the parent company
for those acquisitions.
Some famous ones are: YouTube(2006),
Android(2005), etc. and there are around 185
such MNC’s acquired.
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8. Alphabet
Alphabet Inc. (commonly known
as Alphabet) is an American
multinational conglomerate
created in 2015 as the parent company
of Google and several other companies
previously owned by or tied to Google.
It is headed by the co-founder Larry
Page(CEO) and Sergey Brin(President).
Reorganization of Google into Alphabet
was completed on October 2, 2015.
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13. Strengths:
Market Leader in Search Engines.
Ability to Generate User Traffic.
Revenue from Advertising and Display.
Introduction of Android and Mobile
Technologies.
Weaknesses:
Excessive Reliance on Secrecy.
Falling Ad Rates.
Overdependence on Advertising.
Lack of Compatibility with next generation
devices.
15. Operating system(Android OS, Chrome OS, Android
TV, Android wear)
Desktop Application(chrome, google earth, picasa,
android studio,photos)
Mobile Application(Drive, gmail, Google Now, goggles,
play store, google slides, keep, docs,etc)
Hardware(driverless car, nexus mobile, chromebook,
google glass,
Services (gmail, weather, flights, cloud storage)
Social(hangouts, blogger, groups, google+)
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19. Google Search, commonly
referred to as Google Web
Search or just Google, is
a web search engine owned
by Google Inc. It is the
most-used search engine
on the web, handling more
than three billion searches
each day.
Every time there is a special
occasion google celebrates
it by changing the home
page . It creates new doodle
for it .
22. YouTube is a video-
sharing website. The service
was created by three
former PayPal employees in
February 2005.
In November 2006, it was
bought by Google for
US$1.65 billion.
YouTube now operates as
one of
Google's subsidiaries.
The site allows users to
upload, view, and share
videos.
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Hurley
Steve
Chan
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Karim
23. Android is a mobile operating system (OS) currently
developed by Google, designed primarily
for touchscreen mobile devices such
as smartphones and tablets.
Android, Inc. was founded in October 2003 by by Andy
Rubin . Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google
bought in 2005 for at least $50 million.
26. Google Glass is an optical head-
mounted display designed in the
shape of a pair of eyeglasses. Google
Glass displays information in a
smartphone-like hands-free
format. Wearers communicat with
the Internet via natural
language voice. The headset has
received massive criticism and
legislative action due to privacy and
safety concerns.
27. A key feature of Google’s virtual phone
network, , is the way in which Fi phones
can automatically connect to over a million free
hotspots in order to save on cellular data.
The service automatically switches between
networks depending on signal strength and
speed, and automatically connects to open Wi-Fi
hotspots that meet certain criteria while securing
data with encryption through an automatic .
Phone calls, if placed over a connection, will
seamlessly transition to a cellular network if Wi-Fi
coverage is lost.
28. Google will continue to develop its worldwide domination of all
aspects of the internet, search, multimedia and telecommunications
industries. As the industries and the market decides what will
happen with televisions, computers, telephones, gaming devices,
musical equipment and data transmission, Google will be ready on
all fronts with the products and services that are needed to be
successful. They will continue to enhance news, mail, chatting, voice
messages, blogs, forums and information sharing of any kind with
seamless integration of the products and services.
Editor's Notes
Threat:Another threat to Google is from the emerging area of mobile computing that threatens to pass the company by as newer companies seize the opportunity to ramp up their mobile computing presence.