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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.

Goa: A banner spotted warning travelers against using Google Maps for directions
Staff | February 18, 2019 9:13 AM IST
A banner warning travelers from using Google Maps for directions has gone viral in the state of Goa....
Goa: A banner spotted warning travelers against using Google Maps for directions
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Google shows Pakistan flag when searching for 'best toilet paper in the world'
IANS | February 18, 2019 9:05 AM IST
Google has been showing the Pakistani flag when searching for the term "best toilet paper in the wor...
Google shows Pakistan flag when searching for 'best toilet paper in the world'
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Infosys has just launched a learning app for engineering students
PTI | February 17, 2019 7:00 PM IST
The country's second-largest IT services firm Infosys Saturday announced the launch of 'InfyTQ', a d...
Infosys has just launched a learning app for engineering students
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PUBG Mobile server maintenance on February 18; update 0.11.0 with Zombies coming soon
Staff | February 17, 2019 12:16 PM IST
PUBG Mobile is soon rolling out a new update with a number of new features including the much-antici...
PUBG Mobile server maintenance on February 18; update 0.11.0 with Zombies coming soon
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Google to Roll Out Auto-update Feature For Pre-loaded Apps Without Signing Into Account
IANS | February 16, 2019 9:18 PM IST
San Francisco: Google is planning to roll-out a functionality that would auto-update pre-loaded apps...
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NaMo App Exceeds 1 Crore Downloads at Google Play Store on Android Despite Controversies
IANS | February 15, 2019 11:53 PM IST
New Delhi: With over one crore downloads at Google Play store in four years since its launch, the Na...
NaMo App Exceeds 1 Crore Downloads at Google Play Store on Android Despite Controversies
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Nokia 5.1 Plus Android Pie update rolling out with February 2019 Security Patch
Staff | February 15, 2019 1:09 PM IST
HMD Global is now rolling out a new Android Pie build update for its Nokia 5.1 Plus smartphone. The ...
Nokia 5.1 Plus Android Pie update rolling out with February 2019 Security Patch
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Nokia 2 update rolls out with February Android Security patch
Staff | February 15, 2019 12:12 PM IST
Earlier this month, Google started rolling out an OTA update for Pixel and select Nexus smartphones,...
Nokia 2 update rolls out with February Android Security patch
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Google Pixel 3’s Active Edge feature gets ported to custom ROMs
Staff | February 15, 2019 9:59 AM IST
In 2017, HTC introduced the Edge Sense feature with U11 smartphone. It has a touch sensitive side pa...
Google Pixel 3’s Active Edge feature gets ported to custom ROMs
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UPI-based Amazon Pay digital payment service is now available for Android users in India
IANS | February 14, 2019 6:34 PM IST
To facilitate secure payments and financial transactions on its platform, Amazon on Thursday launche...
UPI-based Amazon Pay digital payment service is now available for Android users in India
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Google Voice for iOS gets latest Material Theme
Staff | February 14, 2019 12:17 PM IST
The search giant has updated the Google Voice for iOS with the Google Material Theme. The company ha...
Google Voice for iOS gets latest Material Theme
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Madhubala's gorgeous Google Doodle on her 86th birth anniversary is making us fall for our eternal Anarkali once again
Urmimala Banerjee | February 14, 2019 11:51 AM IST
The eternal beauty of Bollywood, actress Madhubala's 86th birth anniversary falls today. Google is c...
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Google Remembers Madhubala on Her 86th Birthday, Pays Beautiful Tribute Through Doodle of Anarkali of Bollywood
India.com Buzz Desk | February 14, 2019 9:42 AM IST
Today marks the 86th birth anniversary of the Marilyn Monroe of Bollywood, the legendary Madhubala a...
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2019-02-13T22:42:52+00:00
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Google to launch cheaper Pixel 3, updated Pixel 4, Pixel smartwatch and new smart speaker this year
Staff | February 14, 2019 9:39 AM IST
Google might soon expand its 'Made by Google' hardware lineup with a number of new products. A new r...
Google to launch cheaper Pixel 3, updated Pixel 4, Pixel smartwatch and new smart speaker this year
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Bollywood actress Madhubala's 86th birthday celebrated with a Google doodle
Staff | February 14, 2019 8:42 AM IST
Today's Google Doodle marks the 86th birthday of actress Madhubala, who is revered in the industry a...
Bollywood actress Madhubala's 86th birthday celebrated with a Google doodle
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Google adds new right click options to Gmail
IANS | February 13, 2019 2:48 PM IST
Revamping Gmail, Google has added options like easy label adding, moving, muting and snooze emails t...
Google adds new right click options to Gmail
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LG G8 ThinQ leaked render shows dual cameras, notch display
Staff | February 13, 2019 1:41 PM IST
LG is set to launch its next flagship smartphone, dubbed LG G8 ThinQ, at MWC 2019 in Barcelona on Fe...
LG G8 ThinQ leaked render shows dual cameras, notch display
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Google being probed by India's antitrust watchdog for abuse of Android dominance
Staff | February 13, 2019 12:55 PM IST
Google is now under the scanner of Competition Commission of India over abuse of Android mobile oper...
Google being probed by India's antitrust watchdog for abuse of Android dominance
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LG Q9 One Android One smartphone launched: Price, specifications, features
Staff | February 12, 2019 12:31 PM IST
Last month, LG launched a rebranded version of the LG G7 Fit, called LG Q9 in South Korea, which the...
LG Q9 One Android One smartphone launched: Price, specifications, features
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WhatsApp to soon release redesigned Settings layout for Android users
Staff | February 12, 2019 11:39 AM IST
WhatsApp will soon roll out a new update, offering Android users a new user interface (UI) for the S...
WhatsApp to soon release redesigned Settings layout for Android users
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