Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, FWB: GGQ1) is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation.
Google hosts and develops Internet-based services and products,[5] and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program.
The company's stated mission from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful",[11] and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Paul Buchheit – is Don't be evil. anti-corporate, no evil philosophy
company's core search engine. The Google web search engine is the company's most popular service.
users can search for the information they desire, through the use of keywords and operators.
spread to specific services , including an image search engine, the Google News search site
Google Maps
Google Video, which allowed users to upload, search, and watch videos from the Internet.[97] In 2009, however, uploads to Google Video were discontinued.[98]
Google Books. The company began scanning books and uploading limited previews, and full books where allowed, into their new book search engine. However, a number of copyright disputes arose, and Google reached a revised settlement in 2009 to limit its scans to books from the U.S., the U.K., Australia and Canada.[99]
Google Desktop, a desktop search application used to search for files local to one's computer.
The company offers online productivity software, such as its Gmail e-mail software, and social networking tools, including Orkut and, more recently, Google Buzz. 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.
Google Docs, another part of Google's productivity suite, allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents in an online environment, spreadsheet editing program, and program to edit presentations.
Google Translate is a server-side machine translation service, which can translate between 35 different languages. The software uses corpus linguistics techniques, where the program "learns" from professionally translated documents, specifically United Nationsand European Parliament proceedings.[118] Furthermore, a "suggest a better translation" feature accompanies the translated text, allowing users to indicate where the current translation is incorrect or otherwise inferior to another translation.
Google News
The site Google News Report monitors the Google News homepage, and for May 2007, published this list of the top 26 sites most-often referenced by Google News.
| Rank | News Source |
|---|---|
| 1 | The New York Times |
| 2 | Washington Post |
| 3 | Houston Chronicle |
| 4 | Bloomberg L.P. |
| 5 | Los Angeles Times |
| 6 | Reuters |
| 7 | Forbes |
| 8 | Monsters and Critics.com |
| 9 | guardian.co.uk |
| 10 | Voice of America |
| 11 | International Herald Tribune |
| 12 | Boston Globe |
| 13 | Chicago Tribune |
| 14 | BBC News |
| 15 | San Francisco Chronicle |
| 16 | CBS News |
| 17 | Times Online |
| 18 | Xinhua |
| 19 | Wall Street Journal |
| 20 | USA Today |
| 21 | Fox News |
| 22 | CNN |
| 23 | Seattle Post Intelligencer |
| 24 | MSNBC |
| 25 | ABC News |
| 25 | Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday |
| 26 | The Times of India |
Google Chrome, an open-source web browser
Google Chrome OS, an open-source Linux-based operating system that includes only a web browser and is designed to log users into their Google account,
Google Wave was described as a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. The service is Google's "email redesigned", with realtime editing, the ability to embed audio, video, and other media, and extensions that further enhance the communication experience.
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.
Because of its popularity and numerous products,
Alexa lists Google as the Internet's most visited website.[19]
Google is also Fortune Magazine's fourth best place to work,[20] and
BrandZ's most powerful brand in the world.[21]
The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship.[22][23]
Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world,[14] and processes over one billion search requests[15] and twenty petabytes of user-generated data every day
PageRank, where a website's relevance was determined by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site
Google began selling advertisements associated with search keywords.
Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bids and clickthroughs, with bidding starting at five cents per click.
Using technology from the company DoubleClick, Google can determine user interests and target advertisements appropriately so they are relevant to the context they are in and the user that is viewing them.
Google Analytics allows website owners to track where and how people use their website, allowing for in-depth research into getting users to go where you want them to go.[91]
Google's AdWords allows advertisers to display their advertisements in the Google content network, through either a cost-per-click or cost-per-view scheme.
Google AdSense, allows website owners to display these advertisements on their website, and earn money every time ads are clicked.
Google Earth gave a 3-D view of the Earth.
DoubleClick giving Google valuable relationships Web publishers and advertising agencies.[63
2005
In 2005, Google partnered with NASA Ames Research Center to build 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) of offices.[68] The offices would be used for research projects involving large-scale data management, nanotechnology, distributed computing, and the entrepreneurial space industry.
Google entered into a partnership with Sun Microsystems in October 2005 to help share and distribute each other's technologies.[69
partnered with AOL of Time Warner,[70] to enhance each other's video search services
financing the new .mobi top-level domain for mobile devices, along with other companies including Microsoft, Nokia, and Ericsson.
launch "Adsense for Mobile", taking advantage of the emerging mobile advertising market.[72]
Google and Fox Interactive Media of News Corp. entered into a agreement to provide search and advertising on popular social networking site MySpace.
2006
acquired the video-sharing site YouTube
2008
partnership with GeoEye and launched a satellite providing Google with high-resolution (0.41 m monochrome, 1.65 m color) imagery for Google Earth
hosting an archive of Life Magazine's photographs
2010
Google purchased Global IP Solutions, a Norway based company that provides web-based teleconferencing and other related services. This acquisition will enable Google to add telephone-style services
acquisition of the mobile ad network, AdMob
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