GOOGLE

Origin & History

When Larry met Sergey

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine (initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of a individual webpages.

Google Inc.

Larry and Sergey named the search engine they built “Google,” a play on the word “googol,” the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google Inc. was born in 1998, when Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to that entity—which until then didn’t exist.

Out of the office

The first “Google doodle” in 1998 was intended to let visitors to the homepage know that Google’s minders were offline at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. There’s now a team of “doodlers” and we’ve posted more than 1,000 different doodles on homepages worldwide.

Do-It-Yourself ads

In 2000, Google introduced AdWords, a self-service program for creating online ad campaigns. Today our advertising solutions, which include display, mobile and video ads as well as the simple text ads we introduced more than a decade ago, help thousands of businesses grow and be successful.

Gone public

Google's Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock took place on Wall Street on August 18, 2004.

The company was founded at Menlo Park, California (Sep 4, 1998)

Headquarters: Googleplex, Mountain View, California, US

Today Google has more than 70 offices in more than 40 countries around the globe

Mission

To organize the world’s information and make it universally available

Milestones

Here is a video which will explain google over the years:

Corporate Info

Larry Page CEO   

Eric E. Schmidt Executive Chairman

Sergey Brin Co-Founder

Nikesh Arora Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer

David C. Drummond Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer

Patrick Pichette Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Google's Initial Public Offering of 19,605,052 shares of Class A common stock took place on Wall Street on August 18, 2004.

Revenue Generation Model

Google AdWords

Google AdSense

Products & Services    

Search

• Alerts
  Get email updates on the topics of your choice
• Blog Search
  Find blogs on your favourite topics
• Books
  Search the full text of books
• Google Chrome
  A browser built for speed, simplicity and security
• Images
  Search for images on the web
• Maps
  View maps and directions
• News
  Search thousands of news stories
• Scholar
  Search scholarly papers
• Toolbar
  Add a search box to your browser
• Trends
  Explore past and present search trends
• Web Search
  Search billions of web pages
• Web Search Features
  Find movies, music, stocks, books, and more
  
  
  • SMS
    Use text messaging for quick info
  Explore and innovate
  • Code
    Developer tools, APIs and resources

  Communicate, show & share

  • Blogger
    Share your life online with a blog – it’s fast, easy, and free
  • Calendar
    Organise your schedule and share events with friends
  • Docs
    Create and share your online documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
  • Gmail
    Fast, searchable email with less spam
  • Groups
    Create mailing lists and discussion groups
  • Orkut
    Meet new people and stay in touch with friends
  • Panoramio
    Explore and share photos of the world
  • Picasa
    Find, edit and share your photos
  • Talk
    IM and call your friends through your computer
  • Translate
    View web pages in other languages
  • YouTube
    Watch, upload and share videos

  Go mobile

  • Mobile
    Get Google products on your mobile phone
  • Maps for mobile
    View maps, your location and get directions on your phone
• • Search
    Search Google wherever you are
  • SMS
    Use text messaging for quick info
    
    
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Future Work

Home Automation 

Robots

Driverless Cars

Elevators to Space

Clean Energy 

New Drugs

Climate Change Insurance

Smart Thermostats

Cancer Treatment

Predicting the Future