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About Google
Updated: 02/01/2021 by Computer Hope
Google beginnings
The domain google.com was registered on
September 15, 1997, and the company
incorporated on September 4, 1998. The
picture below is a capture of the site
from The Internet Archive of what Google
looked like in 1998.
Chrome OS.
businesses.
available.
AdSense.
to their website.
your friends.
Internet browser.
a digital class.
and products.
Internet access.
Google Drive - A cloud storage service from
systems.
more.
in most states.
system.
glasses.
Google Groups - Google's bulletin board with
search engine.
landings.
thermostat.
queried by Google.
or phrases.
storage system.
scholarly literature.
spreadsheets, open Microsoft
Internet access.
type, etc.
7 million patents.
open.
language.
long URLs.
Google Video - Search for online videos
artificial intelligence.
mobile devices.
Tip
We also suggest you visit our Google tips page for additional tips on
using all Google services.
questions be asked.
Google Base - A database service provided by
on December 17, 2010.
code.
September 2011.
Hangouts.
15, 2017.
March 15, 2016.
videos.
Google
American company
Google began as an online search firm, but it now offers more than 50
Internet services and products, from e-mail and online document
creation to software for mobile phones and tablet computers. In
addition, its 2012 acquisition of Motorola Mobility put it in the
position to sell hardware in the form of mobile phones. Google’s broad
product portfolio and size make it one of the top four influential
companies in the high-tech marketplace, along with Apple, IBM,
and Microsoft. Despite this myriad of products, its original search tool
remains the core of its success. In 2016 Alphabet earned nearly all of
its revenue from Google advertising based on users’ search requests.
Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai, 2015.
© Enriquecalvoal/Dreamstime.com
Advertising Growth
Since its founding, Google has spent large sums to secure what it has
calculated to be significant Internet marketing advantages. For
example, in 2003 Google spent $102 million to acquire Applied
Semantics, the makers of AdSense, a service that signed up owners of
Web sites to run various types of ads on their Web pages. In 2006
Google again paid $102 million for another Web advertisement
business, dMarc Broadcasting, and that same year it announced that it
would pay $900 million over three and a half years for the right to sell
ads on MySpace.com. In 2007 Google made its largest acquisition to
date, buying online advertising firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. Two
years later the company responded to the explosive growth of the
mobile applications market with a $750 million deal to acquire the
mobile advertising network AdMob. All of these purchases were part
of Google’s effort to expand from its search engine business into
advertising by combining the various firms’ databases of information
in order to tailor ads to consumers’ individual preferences.
Google
QUICK FACTS
DATE
1998 - present
HEADQUARTERS
Mountain View
RELATED PEOPLE
Sheryl Sandberg
Eric Schmidt
Susan Wojcicki
Marissa Mayer
Sergey Brin
Sundar Pichai
Larry Page
AREAS OF INVOLVEMENT
BackRub
Blog
Search engine
Browser
E-mail
The name of Google is derived from the number googol, which is equal to the
number 1 followed by 100 zeros (1 x 10^100).
Backrub was the original name for the search engine until Sergey Brin and Larry
Page rebranded the company as Google, Inc.
Google prohibits any part of any of their offices being more than 150 feet away
from food.
Other Services
Gmail
Google Books
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Google Earth
Google employee Arthur Poirier, on a camera-equipped tricycle, recording images for Google's
Street View mapping service in Paris, August 2009.
Jacques Brinon/AP
Google Apps and Chrome
Android operating system
G1 smartphone