GOOGLE
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related
services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing,
and software. Most of its profits are from AdWords, an online advertising, promotion service.
Google history
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". Than , they changed the name to
Google.
The name "Google" is a misspelling of the word
googol
. Edward Kasner, made this word in
1938, for the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. Google uses this word because the
company wants to make lots of stuff on the Web easy to find and use.
In January 2013, Google company said,that they had earned US$50 billion in 2012. This marked
the first time the company had reached this feat.
//In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google was more than one billion for
the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931 milion).//
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. They incorporated Google as a
privately held company on September 4, 1998. Its
mission
statement from the start was "to
organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,". In 2004,
Google moved to its new place in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.
Fast growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products 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. The
company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-
only Chrome OS for a netbook known as a Chromebook.
//(The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around
the world (as of 2007). It processes over one billion search requests
and about 24 petabytes of
user-generated data each day (as of 2009).)//
In December 2013, Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world.
Google data centers
In 2014, Google owned and operated six Google Modular Data Centers across the U.S, one in
Chile, one in Finland, one in Ireland, one in Belgium, one in Singapore and one on Taiwan.
Things Google has made
Android is an operating system for mobile devices made by Google. It is the biggest competitor
to Apple's iPhone,BlackBerry, and Windows Phone by Microsoft.
Froogle
(Now renamed to Google Product Search)
lets the user find out about things for sale on
the Internet.
Google Books lets people search for books.
Google Calendar is an online calendar.
Google Checkout is a way to pay online. Users can send money using their credit cards or bank
accounts to other users.
Google Chrome is a web browser that Google made
Google Dictionary is a dictionary that can be in many languages.
Google Drive is an online document editor.
Google Earth is the 3D version of Google Maps
(
Google Images is an image search utility).
Google Language Tools; Google Translate is an online translation service. It can translate
websites and text into other languages.
Gmail is an e-mail service that Google started in 2004. It is called Google Mail in the United
Kingdom and Germany. Users get free space to store e-mail.
(
Google News is a facility which shows news stories from over 4,500 news sources.)
Google Maps is a service from Google to provide satellite pictures and road maps for
everywhere around the world.
Google Pack is a pack of Google software.
Google Talk is an instant messenger where you can talk to friends.
