Google Inc: Google, Information, Profile Research

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Corporate Headquarters

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, Ca 94043
U.S.A.
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Background and Company History of Google

Google Inc. (Google) was founded in September 1998, by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two post graduate students at Stanford University who put their PhDs on hold. The company offers Internet search, computing, and advertising technologies. Among other products and services, Google hosts and develops various Internet-based products, and generate profit mainly from advertising through its AdWords program.

The name “Google” is derived from a play on word “googol” denoting the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Google’s star has grown enormously, with a management team that represents some of the industry’s most experienced technologists. Sergey Brin is Google’s Technology President while Larry Page is Product President. Eric Schmidt was appointed CEO in 2001.

Timeline of Google, Inc. at a Glance

• 1995: Brin and Page meet at Stanford University
• 1997: Domain Google.com was registered
• 1998: Google Inc. Company was founded by Brin and Page
• 1999: Google sets up its headquarters in the “Googleplex”
• 2000: Google introduces 10 foreign language versions of its search engine
• 2001: A US patent is awarded to Google’s ranking mechanism, PageRank, citing Larry Page as inventor
• 2004: Google goes public with its offerings
• 2005: Google launches Google Earth
• 2006: Google acquires YouTube
• 2007: Google acquires DoubleClick
• 2007: Google Apps Premier Edition launches, bringing cloud computing to businesses.
• 2007: Google introduce traffic information to Google Maps for more than 30 cities around the U.S.
• 2008: Real-time stock quotes go live on Google Finance for the first time.
• 2009: The Vatican launches a YouTube Channel, providing updates from the Pope and Catholic Church.
• 2010: The first-ever Google Super Bowl ad tells a love story through search terms.
• 2010: You can now personalize your Google.com with a background image.
• 2011: Google+ Launched

Google Financials

As of 2009, Google Inc.’s revenue is reported US$23.651 billion, with operating income of US$8.312 billion, and a profit of US$6.520 billion.

The Google Inc. Team and Board of Directors

Google Inc. Founders

Larry Page
Sergey Brin

Board of Directors

Eric Schmidt, Google Inc.
Sergey Brin, Google Inc.
Larry Page, Google, Inc.
John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Ram Shriram, Sherpalo
John Hennessy, Stanford University
Paul Otellini, Intel
Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University
Ann Mather

Operating Committee

Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Larry Page, Co-Founder & President, Products
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder & President, Technology
Nikesh Arora, President, Global Sales Operations and Business Development
Laszlo Bock, Vice President, People Operations
Shona L. Brown, Senior Vice President, Business Operations, Google Inc.
W.M. Coughran, Jr., Senior Vice President, Engineering
David C. Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer
Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Research
Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow
Jeff Huber, Senior Vice President, Engineering
Omid Kordestani, Senior Advisor, Office of the CEO and Founders
Patrick Pichette, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Product Management
Rachel Whetstone, Vice President, Public Policy and Communications
Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management

Key executives by function, include areas in Engineering, Products, Sales, Legal, Business Operations, Finance, People Operations and Google.org.

Products and Services of Google Inc.

Google Inc.’s products include desktop products, mobile and Web products as acquired by Google Inc., either in gold release, beta development, or part of Google Labs. The most popular Google Web Search features Google services and various tools.

It would be a long list to enumerate Google’s products and services, including desktop and hardware, mobile and Web products, Google Web Search features, Google tools, and Google Labs. Worth mentioning are its most popular products:

Desktop Products Standalone applications

• Chrome (Windows XP/Vista/7, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X) – Web browser
• Earth (Linus, Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, iPhone) – Virtual 3D globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS from Google’s repository

Downloadable mobile products

• Gmail – Downloadable application for accessing Gmail through a web [interface] on a mobile device
• YouTube – Downloadable application for viewing YouTube videos on selected devices
• Google Shopper (Android only) – Downloadable application that make shopping easier

Advertising

• AdSense – Advertisement program for Website owners
• AdWords – Google’s flagship advertising product, and main source of revenue
• Google Advertising Professionals – Google’s AdWords partner certification program
• AdWords Website Optimizer – Integrated AdWords tool for testing different website content for ad campaigns
• DoubleClick – Internet ad serving provider

Communication and Publishing

• Google+ – Google’s Social Network
• Blogger – Weblog publishing tool
• Gmail (or Google Mail) – Free Webmail IMAP and POP e-mail service
• iGoogle (Previously Google Personalized Homepage) – Customizable homepage
• Knol – Service that enables subject experts and other users to write authoritative articles
• Orkut – Social networking service
• YouTube – Free video sharing Web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips

Search Product

• Aardvark – Social search utility which allows people to ask and answer questions within their social networks
• Accessible Search – Search engine for the blind and visually impaired
• Alerts – E-mail notification service, which sends alerts based on chosen search terms, whenever there are new results
• Blog search – Weblog search engine, with a continuously-updated search index
• Web Search – Web search engine, Google’s core product

Statistics Product

• Analytics – Traffic statistics generator for defined websites, with strong AdWords integration
• Insights – Google Insights for Search, a service by Google similar to Google Trends
• Trends – Graph plotting application for Web Search statistics, showing the popularity of search terms

Google Inc. has remained the most powerful Internet search engine that includes online advertising. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are among the youngest billionaires in the world whose PhDs await their completion.

Resource by Tel

Tel Asiado is a writer, author, and business consultant, previously, IT manager & consultant. Her articles reflect her interests, from small business, biographies & histories, to classical music especially Mozart, art & literature, biographies, and Christian writings. Tel has produced non-fictions, e-books and anthologies. Her education is MBA in Computer Management, BSc Chemistry, Diploma in Small Business & Internet Mktg, and Cert IV Training and Assessment (TAA). Her small office/home site is homebizideasnow.com, and numerous information of Mozart and classical music, mozartandclassicalmusic.com.

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