this company’s mission is to organize
the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
taking a look at the history of Google
PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin
began Google as a research project in
January 1996 while attending California
Stanford University by developing a
technology called PageRank they were
able to create a search engine that
could estimate a website’s importance
based on its incoming links initially
nicknamed back rub the google.com domain
name was registered on September 15 1997
and the company incorporated on
September 4th the next year its initial
public offering came on August 19 2004
though the founders and then CEO Eric
Schmidt remained in control as a result
of the IPO many of the company’s
employees became paper millionaires and
this led some to wonder if Google would
live by its don’t be evil motto
like many Silicon Valley startups Google
was first based out of her garage today
its corporate headquarters is in
Mountain View California known as the
Googleplex the offices perpetuate an
informal and casual atmosphere employees
are encouraged to spend 20% of their
time on personal interests and this has
led to the creation of services such as
Google News and Adsense Google’s most
popular service is its online search
engine Google search users employ this
tool to look for information by typing
keywords into the search bar the
incoming results come from the billions
of web pages the company indexes and the
order of the results is partly based on
page rank google has expanded its search
results and paid listings onto other
websites through Adsense Adsense and
AdWords form the engine of Google’s
multi-billion dollar revenue machine
google also offers marketers a free
service called Google Analytics which
produces website visitors
thanks to its innovations the company is
now one of the biggest brokers in the
online advertising market Google search
has branched out to offer other types of
services in many different languages as
well these include google image search
google video search google maps and
google translate google has also
released several internet productivity
tools the most well-known of these is
Gmail Gmail was the first free webmail
service to maintain emails from the same
exchange collectively in a common thread
Gmail was also the first email service
to offer users one gigabyte of free
storage today Gmail offers practically
limitless storage for a small fee
another web productivity tool is Google
Docs this service is comprised of
software that allows users to create
documents spreadsheets and presentations
and store them in the cloud these can be
composed and edited via a web browser
and can also be accessed by more than
one user this software is considered by
some as an attack on one of Microsoft’s
core businesses google has also worked
on other projects notable ones include
the open source web browser google
chrome the mobile operating system
android and the social networking
service google plus to bolster their
mobile efforts Google also acquired
Motorola Mobility in 2011 in addition
Google has acquired other businesses as
launching pads for new services for
example keyhole Inc was developed into
Google Earth for its 3d view of our
planet and Grand Central was developed
into Google Voice two of the company’s
biggest successes through acquisitions
have been Adwords through the applied
semantics deal and the popular
video-sharing website YouTube google
also has a charitable arm called
google.org this not-for-profit
organizations main initiatives revolve
around developing renewable energy
improving access to health services and
reducing worldwide poverty throughout
the years of its existence Google has
not been without its detractors one
recurring issue has been privacy these
concerns range from the Gmail programs
automatic email scanning to create
targeted advertising to the data and
image collection of Google Streetview
the Google search engine has been
criticized for its censorship of search
results and even the company
headquarters has been accused of
unnecessary energy use while the company
is now facing threats from Apple and
Facebook Google is sure to remain a
dominant force in the global Internet
industry
the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
taking a look at the history of Google
PhD students Larry Page and Sergey Brin
began Google as a research project in
January 1996 while attending California
Stanford University by developing a
technology called PageRank they were
able to create a search engine that
could estimate a website’s importance
based on its incoming links initially
nicknamed back rub the google.com domain
name was registered on September 15 1997
and the company incorporated on
September 4th the next year its initial
public offering came on August 19 2004
though the founders and then CEO Eric
Schmidt remained in control as a result
of the IPO many of the company’s
employees became paper millionaires and
this led some to wonder if Google would
live by its don’t be evil motto
like many Silicon Valley startups Google
was first based out of her garage today
its corporate headquarters is in
Mountain View California known as the
Googleplex the offices perpetuate an
informal and casual atmosphere employees
are encouraged to spend 20% of their
time on personal interests and this has
led to the creation of services such as
Google News and Adsense Google’s most
popular service is its online search
engine Google search users employ this
tool to look for information by typing
keywords into the search bar the
incoming results come from the billions
of web pages the company indexes and the
order of the results is partly based on
page rank google has expanded its search
results and paid listings onto other
websites through Adsense Adsense and
AdWords form the engine of Google’s
multi-billion dollar revenue machine
google also offers marketers a free
service called Google Analytics which
produces website visitors
thanks to its innovations the company is
now one of the biggest brokers in the
online advertising market Google search
has branched out to offer other types of
services in many different languages as
well these include google image search
google video search google maps and
google translate google has also
released several internet productivity
tools the most well-known of these is
Gmail Gmail was the first free webmail
service to maintain emails from the same
exchange collectively in a common thread
Gmail was also the first email service
to offer users one gigabyte of free
storage today Gmail offers practically
limitless storage for a small fee
another web productivity tool is Google
Docs this service is comprised of
software that allows users to create
documents spreadsheets and presentations
and store them in the cloud these can be
composed and edited via a web browser
and can also be accessed by more than
one user this software is considered by
some as an attack on one of Microsoft’s
core businesses google has also worked
on other projects notable ones include
the open source web browser google
chrome the mobile operating system
android and the social networking
service google plus to bolster their
mobile efforts Google also acquired
Motorola Mobility in 2011 in addition
Google has acquired other businesses as
launching pads for new services for
example keyhole Inc was developed into
Google Earth for its 3d view of our
planet and Grand Central was developed
into Google Voice two of the company’s
biggest successes through acquisitions
have been Adwords through the applied
semantics deal and the popular
video-sharing website YouTube google
also has a charitable arm called
google.org this not-for-profit
organizations main initiatives revolve
around developing renewable energy
improving access to health services and
reducing worldwide poverty throughout
the years of its existence Google has
not been without its detractors one
recurring issue has been privacy these
concerns range from the Gmail programs
automatic email scanning to create
targeted advertising to the data and
image collection of Google Streetview
the Google search engine has been
criticized for its censorship of search
results and even the company
headquarters has been accused of
unnecessary energy use while the company
is now facing threats from Apple and
Facebook Google is sure to remain a
dominant force in the global Internet
industry
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