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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.

Google Pixel 4 vs Pixel 3: What's different?
Staff | October 16, 2019 12:45 PM IST
Google has finally launched the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL as its latest flagship smartphones. The devic...
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Google Stadia is set to launch on November 19
Staff | October 16, 2019 12:00 PM IST
Google announced Stadia, its cross platform game streaming service in March and now, the company is ...
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Google Pixel 3 series to get Pixel 4's improved night sight via an update
Staff | October 16, 2019 9:45 AM IST
Google has confirmed that it will also roll out the improvements made in Night Sight to its current ...
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Google Pixel 4 vs Pixel 4 XL: Here is everything that’s different
Staff | October 16, 2019 8:15 AM IST
Google announced the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones in the US today. The new Google smartphones ...
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Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL not coming to India, here’s why
Staff | October 15, 2019 9:45 PM IST
Google today launched its latest Pixel 4 series along with a host of new products in New York. The G...
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Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL launched: Check price, specifications, features
Staff | October 15, 2019 8:45 PM IST
Google has finally launched its latest Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones. The Google Pixel 4 series...
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Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL Event 2019 LIVE updates: Pixel 4 announced with Project Soli radar
Staff | October 15, 2019 6:45 PM IST
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Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL launch event today: When, where, how to watch live stream, and what to expect
Staff | October 15, 2019 5:45 PM IST
Google is gearing up to launch its new Pixel 4 family today at a special event in New York. The sear...
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Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL set to feature Snapdragon 855, Qualcomm President confirms
Staff | October 15, 2019 4:15 PM IST
Tech giant Google is set to announce its newest lineup of smartphones the Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4...
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Google Pixel 4 launch event today: How to watch live stream, what to expect and more
Staff | October 15, 2019 9:30 AM IST
Google is all set to launch the flagship Pixel 4 series today at company's Made by Google event toda...
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Made by Google 2019: Here's How to Watch The Pixel 4 Launch Event, What to Expect
India.com News Desk | October 15, 2019 9:11 AM IST
New Delhi: Google is all set to launch its latest Pixel smartphone, called the Pixel 4, on Tuesday a...
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Google Pixel 4 event tomorrow: What to expect, where to watch live stream
Staff | October 14, 2019 6:30 PM IST
Google is all set to launch its latest Pixel smartphones tomorrow. The Google Pixel 4 launch event i...
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Google Doodle celebrates birthday of Plateau, whose research led to the birth of cinema
Staff | October 14, 2019 9:00 AM IST
Google Doodle is celebrating the birthday of Belgian physicist Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau toda...
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WhatsApp Now Back on Google Play Store
IANS | October 13, 2019 10:17 AM IST
San Francisco: Facebook-owned WhatsApp has confirmed that the app was now back on the Google App sto...
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WhatsApp disappears from Google Play Store for a while
Staff | October 12, 2019 2:30 PM IST
In a bizarre incident, Facebook-owned WhatsApp seemed to have disappeared from the Google Play Store...
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Google Doodle honors poet, social worker and feminist, Kamini Roy
Staff | October 12, 2019 12:30 PM IST
Today's Google's Doodle is dedicated to Kamini Roy, a renowned Bengali poet, social worker and femin...
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Google Doodle Celebrates 155th Birth Anniversary of Kamini Roy, One of The First Indian Feminists
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Google Doodle celebrates the 155th birth anniversary of Indian poet, feminist and social worker Kami...
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15 apps on Google Play Store found making Adware attempts
Staff | October 10, 2019 5:45 PM IST
At least 15 apps on Google Play Store were found to be engaging in generating frequent, large, and i...
15 apps on Google Play Store found making Adware attempts
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Google Camera 7.1 APK teardown reveals 'Frequent Faces' feature that might debut with Pixel 4
Staff | October 10, 2019 5:00 PM IST
Google Camera 7.1 roll out via Play Store for compatible devices started yesterday. The new version ...
Google Camera 7.1 APK teardown reveals 'Frequent Faces' feature that might debut with Pixel 4
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Google rolls out October security update for Pixel devices running Android 10, brings fix for critical vulnerabilities
Staff | October 10, 2019 10:30 AM IST
Android 10, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system, was released for Pixel devices o...
Google rolls out October security update for Pixel devices running Android 10, brings fix for critical vulner
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