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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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Google catches up with ITV in British turnover

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Google’s revenues jump to £1.9 billion in the UK as the internet search giant looks to draw level on turnover with ITV... more

Google investigates Chinese staff over cyber-attack

19.01.10
Google is investigating whether Chinese employees helped in a cyber-attack on the internet search giant last month... more

Google investigates Chinese staff over cyber-attack

18.01.10
Google is investigating whether employees in its China office allowed a cyber-attack on the American web search giant last month... more

Google threatens to pull out of China after hackers target dissidents’ emails

13.01.10
Video: Major diplomatic row breaks out after the American internet giant Google threatens to pull out of China... more

Google launches 'iPhone Killer' to take on Apple

06.01.10
Internet giant Google launches Nexus One its own smartphone nicknamed the 'iPhone Killer' to help take on rival Apple... more

Web shoppers flock to buy Google's ‘iPhone killer’ handset

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A 2020 vision of machines as masters

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Children to be taught safe use of the web

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Google's property website lets you tour your new neighbourhood from home

03.12.09
Housebuyers will soon be able to take a virtual walk down their new street before buying... more

Google offers Murdoch olive branch on free news stories

02.12.09
Newspaper publishers will be able to limit how many of their articles internet users can read before they have to pay for them Google, the world’s biggest search engine, announced... more

Now Kew Gardens is right up Google's street

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Millions of visitors will be able to walk around Kew Gardens on a blazing summer day without leaving their living room... more

Google: We won’t remove racist image of Michelle Obama

25.11.09
Google refuses to remove a racially offensive picture of Michelle Obama from its search engine... more

Murdoch mulls Microsoft move to charge for content

23.11.09
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has held talks with Microsoft about the publisher being paid revenues by Microsoft’s search engine Bing if it “de-indexes” its news content from arch-rival Google... more

Gadgets that can green your home

23.11.09
The green revolution has left no area untouched, and now a new breed of gadget is using the humble power cable to save energy and money... more

Google puts millions of books for sale online

17.11.09
Millions of out-of-print books could be made available on Google after it signed a deal with publishing groups and authors... more

Google reveals files it keeps on your web habits

05.11.09
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Google's new music search to rival iTunes

29.10.09
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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

Men are bullied in the City too, Harriet

26.10.09
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Google searches linked to Twitter

22.10.09
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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

02.10.09
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

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Google issues its own rival to Windows

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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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