Google is an American multinational corporation reorganized on October 15, 2015, into the international conglomerate Alphabet Inc., an Alphabet holding company that invests in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
About Google Company
Google maintains and develops a range of Internet services and products and generates revenue primarily from advertising through its Ads program. It ranks as one of the Big Four technology companies alongside Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.
The Google search engine occupies over 60% of the world market. It registers about 50 million search queries every day and indexes over 8 billion web pages. Google can find information in 191 languages (as of December 2, 2009). Besides the search engine, Google provides many other services, including Gmail and Hangouts. The most popular service for third-party app developers is Google Maps. It is this service that leads the way as the basis for integrated applications.
The stated mission of the company has been since the beginning, “the organization of the world’s information, ensuring its availability and benefits for all ” , and the company’s unofficial slogan coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit, – “Do not be evil” (English not the BE evil the Do. ) .
In 2003, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world have , and processes over one billion search requests and 24 petabytes of user data each den s . Google’s rapid growth since its inception has resulted in a large number of products not directly related to the company’s main product – the search engine.
Google has online products such as Gmail, the social network Google+. The company also has desktop products such as the Google Chrome browser, Picasa photo software and Hangouts instant messaging software. In addition, Google is developing the Android mobile operating system, which is used on a large number of smartphones, as well as the Google Chrome OS and Google Glass devices. According to Alexa, Google’s main site – google.com – is the most visited site on the Internet, and numerous international Google sites (google.co.in, google.co.uk, etc.) are in the top 100 most visited, as well as several other google service sites -YouTube, Blogger and Orkut. In May 2011, the number of unique visitors to Google sites in the past month for the first time exceeded 1 billion chelove to .
History of Google Company
History. Google emerged in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were then studying at Stanford University in California.
Although conventional search engines then sorted search results by how many times the search term was mentioned on a page, Page and Brin pondered a better system that would analyze the relationship between sites and . They called this new technology PageRank, and the relevance of a site in it is determined by the number and importance of the pages that link to the site.
Google originally operated on the Stanford University website and had the domain google.stanford.edu.
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was registered on September 4, 1998. It was located in the garage of the founder’s girlfriend (Susan Wojiski) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a classmate of theirs, was hired as the first employee.
The first funding for Google was $ 100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems, received in August 1998, before the company was incorporated .
On June 7, 1999, a $ 25 million funding round was announced with major investors such as venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital .
Google’s initial public offering (IPO) took place five years later, on August 19, 2004. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at $ 85 per share . IPO revenues of $ 1.67 billion meant Google’s market capitalization was over $ 23 billion .
On October 31, 2007, the share price reached $ 700, primarily due to the large volume of sales and the size of the income in the online advertising market .
On February 12, 2014, the company’s capitalization reached $ 400 billion.
In March 1999, the company moved to Palo Alto (CA) – the city, which houses the headquarters of several other well-known technology startups in Silicon Valley . The next year, contrary to the original position against Page and Brin sponsored search advertising system s, the Google began selling advertisements associated with search key layer in . To keep up with the minimalist design, the ads were purely textual.
In 2001, Google received a patent describing the PageRan k mechanism . The patent was officially granted to Stanford University and lists Lawrence Page as the inventor. In 2003, the company leased its current office complex from Silicon Graphics in Mountain View (California ) . The complex has since become known as the Googleplex. Three years later, Google bought the property from SGI for $ 319 million. By this time, the name Google had entered everyday speech, with the result that the verb “google” was added to the Merriam-Webster Academic Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary with the meaning “use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet . “
Since 2001, Google has acquired many companies, targeting mainly small venture capital firms. In 2004, Google acquired Keyhole, Inc . The startup developed a product called Earth Viewer, which hosted satellite images of the earth’s surface. Google renamed the service to Google Earth in 2005. Two years later, Google bought video hosting YouTube for $ 1.65 billion.On April 13, 2007, Google acquired one of the pioneers of online advertising company DoubleClick for $ 3.1 billion, which gave Google the valuable connections that DoubleClick had with web publishers and advertising agencies and .
Later that year, Google acquired GrandCentral for $50 million This service became the basis for Google Voice. August 5, 2009 Google bought primarily for myself a public company – provider of software for video On2 Technologies for $ 106.5 million . Google also acquired the social search network Aardvark for $ 50 million . In April 2010, Google acquired the startup Agnilux .
In 2008, Google partnered with GeoEye to launch a satellite to provide high-resolution imagery to Google Earth.
In 2010, Google acquired the Norwegian company Global IP Solutions, the developer of the web teleconferencing service and. In the same year, Google completed the acquisition of the AdMo mobile ad network b. In July 2010, Google entered into an agreement with an Iowa wind farm to buy 114 megawatts of energy for 20 let.
In August 2011, it was announced that it had reached an agreement to take over Google from Motorola Mobility (one of two independent companies formed by the division of Motorola), a mobile phone company. The transaction value is $ 12.5 billion . On May 22, 2012 the transaction was completed.
In 2018, Google acquired a portion of HTC. The deal is worth $ 1.1 billion. Since the deal is concluded, more than two thousand HTC engineers will develop Google gadgets, including Google Pixel smartphones .
The leadership ( CEO ) of Google
Leadership. In July 2001, at the invitation of the founders of the company, Eric Schmidt took over as chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Google.
Larry Page became CEO on April 4, 2011. Eric Schmidt remained the chairman of the board of directors of Google.
As of June 20, 2010, Page, Brin and Eric Schmidt owned approximately 91% of Class B shares, which together provide their holders with 68% of the voting power. The triumvirate has a decisive influence in all matters pertaining to the competence of the shareholders in .
In 2015, as a result of the reorganization of Google and the creation of the Alphabet holding, Sundar Pichai became the CEO of the company.
