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Google is a publicly traded company United States, play a role in Internet search, Cloud Computing, as well as online advertising technology & software. Advantages of AdWords is nearly all the profits of the company.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University.
They both have a stake in the company amounting to 16 percent. Initially, the company was formed as a private stock company on September 4, 1998. IPO bidding began on 19 August 2004. Since its inception, the Mission of the company is "To organize the worlds Information and make it universally accessible and useful" (to organize all the information in the world and make it accessible and useful to everyone), and no official slogan is "Dont Be Evil" (Dont be evil). In 2006 the company make the shift headquarters to Mountain View, California.

Google History

Developments since the company opened has been conceived a range of products, mergers, and Alliance behind the search engine company. The company offers online productivity software such as Office suite, email, and social networking sites. Googles products also expanded to personal computers, with application to browse the web, manage & edit photos, and Instant Messaging. Google leads the development of Android, the mobile operating system, Google Chrome OS web-based operating system, which is found on a netbook-specific named Chromebook.

Google has an estimated one million servers are already running in data centers around the world, and has processed more than one billion searches and about twenty four petabytes of data of users every day.


As of September 2009, Alexa lists the main Google.com site (which focused on the United States) as the most visited website on the Internet, and Googles website in the top one hundred other international, as well as website-Google-owned website like YouTube, Blogger and Orkut. Google is also ranked number two in brand equity, BrandZ database. The dominant market position of Google acts as a source of lanan criticism on this companys privacy concerns, copyright, and censorship.

Advertising
Most of Googles revenue comes from advertising programs. For the financial year 2006, the company reported total profits advertising for $ 10,492 billion and only $ 112 million in licensing and other revenues. Google AdWords allows advertisers to display ads to the web in Google search results and the Google Content Network, through a system of pay-per-click or pay-per-view. Google AdSense website owners can also display ads on their own sites, and get lucky every time an ad is clicked.

Application
Google is widely known because of its Web search service, which was a major factor in the success of this company. In August 2007, Google is a search engine on the webs most frequently used with as much 53,6% market share, then Yahoo! (19.9%) and Live Search (12.9%). Google has billions of web pages, so that users can search for the information they desire, through the use of keywords and operators. Google has also been using technology Web searches on other search services, including image search, Google News, the price comparison site Google Product Search, Google Groups Usenet archive, interactive Google Maps and more.

In 2004, Google launched a web-based email service, Gmail gratisnya referred to as. Gmail features spam filtering technology and the ability to use Google technology to search e-mail. Service revenue by displaying ads from the AdWords service are included in the content of an e-mail message that is displayed on the screen.

In early 2006, the company launched Google Video, which not only allows users to search and view videos for free, but also allows users to share content and media workers, including television shows on CBS, NBA basketball games, and music videos. In August 2007, Google announced that it will discontinue its video sales and rental programs and offered refunds and credits Google Checkout for users who have bought the video for themselves.

Google has also made some desktop applications, including Google Earth, an interactive mapping program provided by satellite and aerial photography covering the whole planet Earth. Google Earth is considered to be very accurate and more detailed. Some of the major cities have a clear picture that can be brought up as close as nearby-to see vehicles and pedestrians clearly. As a result, there are a number of reasons regarding the involvement in national security. Specifically, some countries and military assumed this software can be used to see with clarity of near-clear physical location damaged infrastructure, commercial and residential buildings, bases, government agencies, and others. However, the satellite images are updated infrequently, and are all available free of charge through other products and even government sources (NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for example). Some people judge this argument by stating that Google Earth is easily accessible as well when searching for locations.

Some other products are available through Google Labs, which was a collection of applications that are not finished yet and is still in trial stages in order to be used publicly.

Google has been promoting their products in a variety of ways. In London, Google Space was set up at Heathrow Airport, showcasing a wide range of products, including Gmail, Google Earth and Picasa. Also, a similar page was launched for American College students, under the name College Life, Powered by Google.

In 2007, some reports state that Google plans to launch their own mobile phone, possibly a competitor to Apples iPhone. On November 5, 2007, Google announced Android, a software platform and operating system for mobile devices that are supported by the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium consisting of 34 companies, software, hardware and telecommunications which aims to develop open standards for mobile devices. In September 2008, T-Mobile released the first mobile phone that runs on the Android platform, the G1.
In October 2007, Google SMS service launched in India and allows users to obtain business listings, film screenings schedule and information by sending a short message.

Google also launched Google Chrome IE a browser. The Browser is pretty fast and it looks minimalist



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