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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.

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Sound check: Rocking with Laughter

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Google reveals files it keeps on your web habits

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Google's new music search to rival iTunes

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Now Google shows you how much electricity you are using

28.10.09
Google launches new service allowing people to monitor their home power usage from anywhere in the world... more

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Google searches linked to Twitter

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Media Corp rockets after Google moves website up the rankings

19.10.09
Google has lifted an alleged penalty on an internet advertising company which caused a plunge in traffic to its websites ... more

US economy clicks with the Google effect

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It was Google’s 11th birthday this week and to celebrate, the ubiquitous search engine company misspelled its name as Googlle on its home page. The double “l” was supposed to look like the number eleven... more

Internet users baffled by Google's misspelling

28.09.09
Internet giant Google sparked confusion after deliberately misspelling its own name... more

Victory for Google in trademarks battle

22.09.09
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Recession hits finance firms' brand value

18.09.09
Brand value of many famous financial institutions has taken a battering over the past year but fast food companies are doing well in the recession... more

Microsoft opposes Google in copyright battle

09.09.09
Google has no right to "restructure copyright" in a deal which could see it monopolise the market by converting millions of copyrighted books for digital sale, Microsoft has said... more

Millions lose Gmail in Google blunder

02.09.09
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Google closes in on London's landmarks using your pictures

29.07.09
If you have ever wondered what the hands of Big Ben look like, or wanted to see exactly what is on the dome of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Google has the answer... more

Google issues its own rival to Windows

08.07.09
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Google adds Farsi to translator

19.06.09
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All the fun of the faire as DIY goes back to the future

05.06.09
The Bay Area’s Maker culture, which I wrote about a few months back, had its fourth big annual outing last weekend when some 80,000 people attended the two-day Maker Faire in San Mateo, at the Valley’s northern edge ... more

Sir Paul McCartney’s home off Street View

22.05.09
Sir Paul McCartney has had his home removed from Google Street View over security fears.... more

Branson dreams... of owning Google

21.05.09
Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson was Google’s special guest at the internet giant’s “Zeitgeist” meeting in Hertfordshire this week ... more

Mandelson calls for a regulation light touch

18.05.09
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson warned that governments should not allow anger about the credit crunch to stifle financial markets with excessive regulation ... more

Is Wolfram Alpha the new answer to Google?

15.05.09
Radical internet search engine which claims to answer all your questions is launched in bid to take on internet giant Google... more

First review: Wolfram Alpha, the web's new search engine

15.05.09
At first glance Wolfram Alpha looks like a pretty standard search engine, with a solitary text entry box... more

Google is given the go-ahead to keep British streets in view

23.04.09
The privacy watchdog today rejected complaints against Google’s Street View service... more

Google growth halted as credit crunch bites

17.04.09
Internet search engine Google is feeling the pain of recession after seeing years of unbridled growth come crashing to a end... more

Media critics are protesting too much about power of Google

08.04.09
Media analysis: Back at the beginning, which means barely a decade ago, Google seemed like the epitome of public-service benevolence.... more

Google and music labels launch China download service

30.03.09
Google Inc. and major music companies launched a free Internet music download service for China in a bid to help turn a field dominated by pirates into a profitable, legitimate business... more

Get street wise – Big Brother is googling you

25.03.09
If Google's aim is to be master of all it surveys, then the launch of Google Street View in the UK brings it that much closer to surveying, well, everything... more

You've been framed by Google's Street View

20.03.09
Google has removed dozens of pictures from its new Street View service because of privacy concerns... more

Sony and Google in digital books tie-up

19.03.09
Sony has teamed up with Google to fight back against Amazon’s lead in offering digital books through hand-held electronic reading devices... more

Music's over as Google blocks YouTube song clips in licence dispute

10.03.09
Music fans will no longer be able to watch their favourite videos on YouTube after Google blocked viewings during a dispute over licensing... more

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  • Facts
  • 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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