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Google Índice de contenido 1- What is google?................................................................................................................................2 2-History...............................................................................................................................................3 2.1. Financing and initial public offering................................................................................4 2.2. Growth...................................................................................................................................5 2.3. Acquisitions and partnerships................................................................................................5 2.4. Google Data Centers..............................................................................................................7 3- Products and services.......................................................................................................................7 3.1. Advertising.............................................................................................................................7 3.2. Search engine.........................................................................................................................9 3.3. Productivity tools.................................................................................................................10 3.4. Enterprise products..............................................................................................................11 3.5. Other products......................................................................................................................11 4- Corporate affairs and culture..........................................................................................................13 4.1. Employees............................................................................................................................13 4.2. Googleplex...........................................................................................................................14 4.3. Easter eggs and April Fools' Day jokes...............................................................................15 4.4. Philanthropy.........................................................................................................................15 4.5. Network neutrality...............................................................................................................16 4.6. Privacy.................................................................................................................................16 5-Talk:Google.....................................................................................................................................17 5.1.China hacks google...............................................................................................................17 5.2.Update number of employees...............................................................................................18 5.3.STILL LOCKED? - Please add this change.........................................................................18 5.4.Wall of text intro...................................................................................................................18 5.5.Est. Date................................................................................................................................18 5.6.Why is there no criticism regarding google aquisitions?......................................................19 5.7.Edit request from 65.8.28.120, 27 September 2011.............................................................19 5.8.Include Ben Fried as CIO?....................................................................................................19 5.9.List of Google domains.........................................................................................................19 6-See also............................................................................................................................................26 6.1.Outline of Google.................................................................................................................26 6.1.1. Essence of Google........................................................................................................26 6.1.2.History...........................................................................................................................26 6.1.3.Branches of Google.......................................................................................................26 6.1.4.Persons influential in the field of Google.....................................................................27 6.1.5.Google's influence on language and culture.................................................................27 6.1.6.External links................................................................................................................28 Informática 1º work of Open Office 1- What is google? Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Amit Patel and supported by Paul Buchheit – is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California. Google's rapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The company offers online productivity software, such as its Gmail email service, and social networking tools, including Orkut and, more recently, Google Buzz and Google+. 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 leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, used on a number of phones such as the Motorola Droid and the Samsung Galaxy smartphone series', as well as the new Google Chrome OS, best known as the main operating system on the Cr-48 and also, since 15 June 2011, on commercial Chromebooks such as the Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700. It has been estimated that Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Alexa lists the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's most visited website, and numerous international Google sites (google.co.in(14) is the most visited site in India, google.co.uk in the U.K, etc.) are in the top hundred, as are several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube (Alexa:3), Blogger (Alexa:6), and Orkut. Google also ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database. The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship. Informática 1º work of Open Office 2-History Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites. They called this new technology 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. A small search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services designed by Robin Li was, since 1996, already exploring a similar strategy for site-scoring and page ranking. The technology in RankDex would be patented and used later when Li founded Baidu in China. Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people. Originally, Google ran under the Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki) garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first Informática 1º work of Open Office employee. In May 2011, unique visitors of Google surpassed 1 billion mark for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from
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