2. What is google???
Google is a multinational public corporation
invested in Internet search, cloud
computing, and advertising technologies.
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3. Google hosts and
develops a number
of Internet-based
services and
products
Generates profit
primarily from
advertising through
its AdWords
program
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5. • It was first
incorporated as a
privately held
company on
September 4, 1998,
and its initial public
offering followed on
August 19, 2004.
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6. • The company's stated mission from the outset
was "to organize the world's information and
make it universally accessible and useful“
• The company moved to their current
headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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7. Google runs over one million
servers in data centers
around the world,and
processes over one billion
search requests
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8. Google's rapid growth
since its incorporation
has triggered a chain of
products, acquisitions,
and partnerships
beyond the company's
core search engine.
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9. The company offers online productivity
software, such as its Gmail e-mail software,
and social networking tools, including Orkut
and, more recently, Google Buzz.
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10. Google's products
extend to the
desktop as well, with
applications such as
the web browser
Google Chrome, the
Picasa photo
organization and
editing
software, and the
Google Talk instant
messaging
application.
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11. • Notably, Google leads
the development of the
Android mobile phone
operating system, used
on a number of phones
such as the Nexus One
and Motorola Droid.
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12. The Google web search engine
is the company's most popular
service.
According to market research
published by comScore in
November 2009
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13. • Google indexes
trillions of web
pages, so that users
can search for the
information they
desire, through the
use of keywords and
operators.
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Despite
criticism, the basic
search engine has
spread to specific
services as
well, including an
image search
engine, the Google
News search
site, Google
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14. • In addition to its standard web search
services, Google has released over the
years a number of online productivity
tools.
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15. Gmail, a free webmail service
provided by Google, was
launched as an invitation-only
beta program on April
1, 2004
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16. The service would be the first online
email service with one gigabyte of
storage, and the first to keep emails
from the same conversation together in
one thread, similar to an Internet
forum.
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17. The service currently
offers over 7400
MB of free storage
with additional
storage ranging
from 20 GB to 16
TB available for
US$0.25 per 1 GB
per year
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18. Google entered the enterprise
market in February 2002
with the launch of its Google
Search Appliance, targeted
toward providing search
technology for larger
organizations
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19. Google Translate is a
server-side machine
translation
service, which can
translate between 35
different languages.
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20. • Google's headquarters in
Mountain
View, California is
referred to as "the
Googleplex", a play of
words on the number
googolplex and the
headquarters itself being a
complex of buildings.
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