Google Inc. is a major American corporation that is best known for running Google Search, an extremely popular multilingual internet search engine. The search engine was first launched in the public domain at gooogle.com in September 1997, and became incorporated in September 1998. Created by Sergey Brin and Larry Page while they were PhD students at Stanford University, USA, Google Inc. is a publicly traded company (listed on NASDAQ and the London Stock Exchange). Google has acquired such popular websites as YouTube.com, and AOL. In recent years, Google has been the subject of criticism for allowing government censorship on its services in the Peoples Republic of China.
In the air: Google UK has a new chief. Dan Cobley, the former marketing boss, steps up as Matt Brittin takes on a bigger European role after two and a half years in the job... more
Google's UK operation has made more than $1 billion (£633.7 million) in quarterly revenues for the first time, as turnover leapt by a quarter despite wider economic jitters... more
With great fanfare, Google launched its apparent Facebook-killer, Google+, this summer. So far the verdict among even the nerdiest social media nuts is: we're not sure what to do with it... more
It is the ultimate brand of the internet era. But today Google embraces a more traditional form of retail technology for the first time in its short history... more
British price comparison website Foundem accuses Google chairman Eric Schmidt of "misleading" testimony to America's senate about his internet search giant's dominance... more
Analysis: Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook tablet computer, may have the most to lose from Google's deal to acquire Motorola Mobility say analysts... more
Google's tax-avoidance arrangements come under fresh scrutiny, as accounts reveal that its UK operation paid only £1.2 million in corporation tax last year despite the US parent company making huge profits... more
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Google is leaving open the door to more co-operation with social-media giants Facebook and Twitter, and believes there is room for multiple social networks as it rolls out its own, executive chairman Eric Schmidt has said... more
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The pressure on Google from regulators and lawmakers rises as it emerges several American states have begun anti-trust investigations into the internet search giant... more
The British Library plans to digitise 40 million pages from 250,000 of its most valuable books and periodicals and allow free access online in partnership with Google... more
UK hotels giant InterContinental Hotels is switching 25,000 of its employees and hotel managers onto a cloud-based email system managed by Google in place of Microsoft's Outlook... more
Groupon backer Marc Andreessen, the Netscape co-founder who took part in a recent round of funding, waves off fears of an emerging tech bubble, citing historically low PE ratios... more
Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said.... more
Chinese hackers may have been monitoring the emails of hundreds of senior US and South Korean government officials for more than a year, researchers claim... more
Google's chairman Eric Schmidt astonishingly declares he "screwed up" by missing the social networking boom. He also revealed he had tried and failed to secure a tie-up with Facebook... more
Hours after Google said it was "incredibly excited" at the launch of its new app turning smartphones into electronic wallets, payment company PayPal punctures the fanfare by suing the search giant for stealing the idea... more
Facebook's secret decision to hire PR firm Burson-Marsteller to spread negative stories about Google in America last week was not only cack-handed but also a telling illustration of where power lies in the internet age... more
Google Inc says it has set aside $500 million to settle the U.S. Justice department's probe into the company's online advertising practices, signalling yet another row with the regulators... more
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Google's London subsidiary generated almost $1 billion in revenues in the first three months
of the year as it continues to grow at double-digit pace - up 15% on a year earlier... more
Google’s worldwide servers process around 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour. (1 Petabyte is equal to 1000 Terabytes, which is 1million gigabytes)
Google’s headquarters are located in Mountain View, California, USA, and the complex is known as the Googleplex
As of April 2009, Google employs around 19,800 people full-time. Fortunately for them, Fortune Magazine has ranked Google as the Number 1 Best Place to Work numerous times
Google employees are encouraged to take one day off per week to pursue projects of their own personal interest. This scheme has been called ‘Innovation Time Off’ and has proved successful, spawning Google services such as Google Mail (GMail) and Google News
Googe.com is ranked 1st by Alexa Internet with regards to total traffic – it is the most visited website on the internet
99% of all of the revenue for Google (over $20billion) comes from advertising
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