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Title

Google Search Engine

Description

For the search engine produced by this corporation, see Google search; for the underlying technology, see Google platform; for other uses see Google (disambiguation).

Google (or click the Thumbnail on the right)

• Typ: Public (NASDAQ: GOOG) and (LSE: GGEA)
• Founded: Menlo Park, California (1998)
• Headquarters: Mountain View, California, USA
• Key people: Eric E. Schmidt, CEO/Director
• Sergey Brin, Technology President
• Larry E. Page, Products President
• George Reyes, CFO
• Industry: Internet
• Products: See list of Google services and tools
• Revenue: $6.138 Billion USD (2005)
• Net income: $1.465 Billion USD (2005)
• Employees: 7,942 (June 30 2006)
• Website: www.google.com

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is a U.S. public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation the 7 September 1998, that designs and manages the Internet's most used search engine. The company employs approximately 8,000 employees and is based in Mountain View, California. Eric Schmidt, former chief executive officer of Novell, was named Google's CEO when co-founder Larry Page stepped down.

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol," which refers to 10¹⁰⁰ (a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros). Google has had a major impact on online culture. The verb "google" was recently added to both the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, meaning "to use the Google search engine to obtain information on the Internet."

Google's services are run on several server farms, each consisting of thousands of low-cost commodity computers running stripped-down versions of Linux. While the company does not provide detailed information about its hardware, a 2006 estimate consisted of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world (See Google platform for more details on their technology). According to the Nielsen cabinet, Google is the most popular search engine on the web with a 54% market share, ahead of Yahoo! (23%) and MSN (13%). It receives about a billion search requests per day, which are recorded and stored indefinitely "to improve its search engines."

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Address

2400 E. Bayshore Parkway

Mountain View CA 94043 USA

Contact

Larry Page

+1 650 318 0200, Fax: +1 650 618 1499

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External Links

• Alexa: Google.com