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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related

Google LLC
services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing,
software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon,
Apple, and Microsoft.[10][11]

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at
Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent Google's logo since 2015
of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a California
privately held company on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware
on October 22, 2002.[12] An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved
to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google
announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is
Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet
interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of
Alphabet.

The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and Google's headquarters, the Googleplex
partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers services designed for work and
Formerly Google Inc. (1998–
productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time 2017)
management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Duo,
Type Subsidiary
Hangouts), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google
Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Keep), and photo organizing and Industry Internet
editing (Google Photos). The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Cloud computing
Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome Computer software
browser. Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major Computer hardware
electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware Artificial intelligence
products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Google Advertising
Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has also experimented
Founded September 4, 1998[a]
with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station).[13] in Menlo Park,
California, U.S.
Google.com is the most visited website in the world.[14] Several other Google services also figure in the top
100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google was the most valuable brand in the Founders Larry Page
world as of 2017,[15] but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax Sergey Brin
avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. Google's mission statement is "to organize the Headquarters 1600 Amphitheatre
world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The company's unofficial slogan Parkway, Mountain
"Don't be evil" was removed from the company's code of conduct around May 2018, but reinstated by July View, California, U.S.
31, 2018.[16][17] Area served Worldwide
Key people Sundar Pichai (CEO)
Ruth Porat (CFO)
Contents Products List of Google products

History Revenue 66,001,000,000 US

Early years dollar[5] (2014)

Growth Operating 16,496,000,000 US

income dollar[5] (2014)
Initial public offering
2012 onward Net income 14,444,000,000 United
States dollar[5] (2014)
Products and services
Search engine 131,133,000,000 US
Total assets
Advertising dollar[5] (2014)
Consumer services Number of 114,096 (Q3 2019)
Web-based services employees
Software Parent Alphabet Inc. (2015–
Hardware present)
Enterprise services Subsidiaries List of subsidiaries
Internet services Website google.com (https://ww
Other products w.google.com/)
Corporate affairs Footnotes / references
[6][7][8][9]
Finance
Corporate identity
Workplace culture
Office locations
Infrastructure
Environment
Philanthropy

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