Google celebrates 13th birthday with Google Doodle
Google Inc. is an Americanmultinational public corporation invested in Internetsearch, cloud computing, andadvertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-basedservices and products, andgenerates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and SergeyBrin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was firstincorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At thattime Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together atGoogle for twenty years, until the year 2024. The company's mission statementfrom the outset was "to organize the world's information and make ituniversally accessible and useful",and the company's unofficialslogan – coined by Google engineer Amit Patel and supported by Paul Buchheit – is "Don't beevil". In 2006, the companymoved to its current headquarters in MountainView, California.
It has been estimated that Google runs over onemillion servers in data centers around the world, and processes over onebillion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Google'srapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products,acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. Thecompany offers online productivity software, such as its Gmail email service, and social networking tools, including orkut and, more recently, Google Buzz and Google+.Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications such as theweb browser Google Chrome, the Picasa photo organization and editingsoftware, and the Google Talk instant messaging application. Notably, Google leads thedevelopment of the Android mobile operating system, used on a number ofphones such as the Motorola Droid and the Samsung Galaxy smart phone series', as well as thenew Google Chrome OS best known as the main operatingsystem on the Cr-48 and also, since 15 June 2011, oncommercial Chrome books such as the Samsung Series 5 and AcerAC700. Alexa lists the main U.S.-focused google.comsite as the Internet's most visited website, and numerous international Googlesites (google.co.in(14) is the most visited site in India, google.co.uk in theU.K, etc.) are in the top hundred, as are several other Google-owned sites suchas YouTube (Alexa:3), Blogger(Alexa:6), and Orkut. Google also ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database. The dominantmarket position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy,copyright, and censorship.
The search engine marks entering its teens by turning its home page into a birthday party scene.
Surrounded by multi-coloured balloons and streamers, its logo is adorned with party hats and sits behind a table heaped with wrapped presents and a large white birthday cake with 13 candles.
Although Google's founders, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built their first search engine in 1996, it was not until 1998 that they formalised their work and created Google.
The company filed for incorporation on September 4, 1998, and the Google.com domain was registered on September 15. The search engine officially celebrates its birthday on September 27.
The pair came up with the name as a play on the word “googol”, the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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