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Google is an American multinational technological corporation that has one of the largest search engines on the internet and is also famous for internet related services, products, search engines, cloud computing and software. The company was formed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were completing their Ph. D and the company now processes on an average over 40,000 search queries every second which translates to 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year. Google earns most of its profits through AdWords that it places through online advertising near the list of the search results. The head office of Google is called Googleplex and it is situated at Mountain View, California. Google was started in the early 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were completing their Ph D from Stanford University. The difference that made Google popular from other search engines was that their search engine analyzed the relationships between the websites and it determined the relevance of the website on the basis of the number of pages, its importance that linked back to the original site. This technology was called by them as PageRank. On the other hand, other search engines ranked result of the search on the basis of the number of times the search terms appeared on the page. Thus, Google had an advantage from other search engines. The founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin called their search engine as Backrub. However, they made it into a company and named it as Google Inc. on 7th September 1998 at a friends garage in Menlo Park, California. They named it as Google as a misspelling of googol that represents the number represented by a 1 followed by a hundred zeros. As they had the aim of creating a very large scale search engine, they chose this name. Google originally ran under the Stanford Universitys website with the domain google.stanford.edu andz.stanford.edu. After forming the company, Larry and Sergey hired Craig Silverstein, their fellow Ph D student as their first employee. After its formation, the company in February 1999 moved to 165 University Ave in California. Later it moved to a place called as Googleplex and it is still the headquarters of the company. The owners were finding it difficult to handle the company as it was distracting them from their studies. They then proposed to sell their company to the CEO of Excite for $1 million. He rejected the offer. Google received its first funding before Google was even incorporated. Andy Bechtolsheim, the co founder of Sun Microsystem contributed Google $100,000 before its incorporation. However, on 7th June 1999, Google received a major funding of $25 million from major investors that includes firms like Kleiner Perkins Caufield and buyers, Sequoia Capital. In 2004, Googles initial public offering took place and at that time Larry, Sergey and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together for Google for the next 20 years. The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. The shares were offered at an online auction. Google also made percentage of its money through America Online and InterActiveCorp. Google earns through advertising. Google receives money through companies or advertisers who want to sell their products to the masses. Google then uses Google Analytics to understand the profile of any person. Google Analytics studies the behavior of the person on the basis of the websites visited by them. Thus Google then displays the advertisement on the wall on the basis of the background received through Google Analytics. This helps Google to make the advertisement reach the right type of people. Google for the first time surpassed one billion visitors on its search engine in a month in May 2011 and experienced an increase of 8.4 percent compared to the 931 million visitors in May 2010. Google also owns as well has purchased many number of companies. Google products includes Android, Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Books, Google News, Google +, YouTube etc. in August 2015, Google announced its plans to re organize its interest as a holding company called Alphabet Inc. However, Google has also faced criticism. Google has been criticized for using various strategies to avoid taxes. Out of the five largest American Technological companies, Google pays the lowest tax. The company accompanies this partly by licensing its technology through shell subsidiaries in tax havens such as Ireland, Netherland and Bermuda. Google also has faced criticism for search neutrality copyright, privacy, censorship of search results etc.

SMBs Fast Learning, Adopting New Technologies to Stay in Race: Google India
IANS | June 26, 2019 8:38 PM IST
The small and medium businesses (SMBs) sector which contributes nearly 37 per cent of India's GDP, i...
SMBs Fast Learning, Adopting New Technologies to Stay in Race: Google India
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Microsoft Losing on Android my Greatest Mistake Ever: Bill Gates
IANS | June 25, 2019 10:15 PM IST
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has said that his "greatest mistake ever" was the...
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Study finds over 2,000 dangerous apps on Google Play Store
Staff | June 25, 2019 2:00 PM IST
A two-year-long study has found that 2,040 apps on Google Play Store are harmful in some way. The st...
Study finds over 2,000 dangerous apps on Google Play Store
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Google Pixel 4 Google Camera likely to sport wide-color capture support
Staff | June 25, 2019 9:30 AM IST
Google is months away from launching its upcoming 2019 flagship smartphone, Google Pixel 4. However,...
Google Pixel 4 Google Camera likely to sport wide-color capture support
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Google Duo's New Feature Will Allow Users to Share Photos: Report
IANS | June 24, 2019 3:42 PM IST
Google Duo has finally got a new feature to include images -- Version 56 -- which is now partially l...
Google Duo's New Feature Will Allow Users to Share Photos: Report
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Google Says Fighting Fake Business Profiles on Maps
IANS | June 24, 2019 11:48 AM IST
San Francisco: Admitting that fake business profiles were lurking people on Google Maps, the company...
Google Says Fighting Fake Business Profiles on Maps
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Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Slack Due to Security Reasons
IANS | June 24, 2019 12:00 AM IST
Microsoft has banned its employees from using the free version of Slack, reportedly due to security ...
Microsoft Bans Employees From Using Slack Due to Security Reasons
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Amrish Puri Birthday: Google Pays Tribute on 87th Birth Anniversary of DDLJ Actor With a Doodle
India.com Buzz Desk | June 22, 2019 12:53 AM IST
On June 22, Google remembers late veteran Amrish Puri on his 87th birthday with a doodle. The charac...
Amrish Puri Birthday: Google Pays Tribute on 87th Birth Anniversary of DDLJ Actor With a Doodle
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2019-06-21T13:53:26+00:00
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Google Maps Flooded With Over 11 Million False Listings And Phone Numbers
IANS | June 21, 2019 11:03 PM IST
San Francisco: With thousands of new fake accounts being added every month, Google Maps is flooded b...
Google Maps Flooded With Over 11 Million False Listings And Phone Numbers
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CCI is asking smartphone makers information on their agreements with Google
Staff | June 21, 2019 5:59 PM IST
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has asked smartphone makers for some information. This informa...
CCI is asking smartphone makers information on their agreements with Google
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Google Celebrates The Longest Day of The Year With Earth Doodle, Know Everything About Summer Solstice Here
India.com Buzz Desk | June 21, 2019 8:12 AM IST
Today, June 21, marks the longest day of the year or Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere whic...
Google Celebrates The Longest Day of The Year With Earth Doodle, Know Everything About Summer Solstice Here
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2019-06-20T21:12:33+00:00
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Google Invests $1 Billion For 20,000 Homes in San Francisco's Bay Area
IANS | June 20, 2019 12:22 AM IST
After announcing a fresh investment of $600 million in expanding its data centre in Oklahoma, Google...
Google Invests $1 Billion For 20,000 Homes in San Francisco's Bay Area
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Google Calendar Suffers Nearly Three Hours Global Outage
IANS | June 19, 2019 7:55 PM IST
Adding to the plethora of outages that apps from major tech giants have been suffering lately, Googl...
Google Calendar Suffers Nearly Three Hours Global Outage
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YouTube Now Lets Users Try on Virtual Makeup While Watching Tutorials
IANS | June 19, 2019 6:44 PM IST
With a new "Augmented Reality (AR) Beauty Try-On feature", Google-owned video sharing platform YouTu...
YouTube Now Lets Users Try on Virtual Makeup While Watching Tutorials
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2019-06-19T07:44:14+00:00
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Google Accused of Illegally Copying Song Lyrics to Display in Search Results
IANS | June 17, 2019 10:14 PM IST
Genius Media, a US-based digital media company that specialises in song lyrics, has accused Google o...
Google Accused of Illegally Copying Song Lyrics to Display in Search Results
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2019-06-17T11:14:39+00:00
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Father's Day 2019: Google Doodle Highlights Fatherhood With THIS Cute Animated Duck And Ducklings Video
India.com Buzz Desk | June 16, 2019 6:51 AM IST
A father and his sacrifices often go unnoticed maybe because our big and strong men are not really s...
Father's Day 2019: Google Doodle Highlights Fatherhood With THIS Cute Animated Duck And Ducklings Video
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Backs Kohli & Boys to Win World Cup
IANS | June 13, 2019 6:53 PM IST
Sundar Pichai, Googles Indian-American CEO, feels India and England will lock horns in the final of ...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Backs Kohli & Boys to Win World Cup
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2019-06-13T07:53:25+00:00
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Google Maps Introduces Experimental 'Off-Route' Feature in India
IANS Feeds | June 11, 2019 1:02 PM IST
San Francisco, June 11: As part of the new experimental features Google is trying out and adding on ...
Google Maps Introduces Experimental 'Off-Route' Feature in India
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Google, US Budget Office Seek Exemption of Ban on Chinese Tech Company Huawei
IANS | June 10, 2019 7:57 PM IST
Beijing: Google and the White House budget office are among the organisations that are seeking repri...
Google, US Budget Office Seek Exemption of Ban on Chinese Tech Company Huawei
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2019-06-10T08:57:59+00:00
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Google Celebrates Commencement of 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup With Doodle
ANI | June 7, 2019 8:10 AM IST
Google on Friday marked the commencement of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France with a doodle creat...
Google Celebrates Commencement of 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup With Doodle
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