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{{about|the Internet company|the number|Googol|the search engine|Google Search}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Google LLC (google.com)
| logo = Google 2015 logo.svg
| logo_size = 100px
| logo_alt = Each letter of "Google" is colored (from left to right) in blue, red, yellow, blue (again), green, and red (again).
| logo_caption = Google's logo {{as of|2015|lc=y|since=y}}
| image = Googleplex HQ (cropped).jpg
| image_size = 100px
| image_caption = Google's headquarters, the [[Googleplex]]
| former_name = Backrub (1995-1997) Google Inc. (1997–2017)
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| industry = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Internet]]
| [[Cloud computing]]
| [[Computer software]]
| [[Computer hardware]]
| [[Artificial intelligence]]
| [[Advertising]]
}}
| founded = 1995 (first prototype) 1997 (second prototype) {{Start date and age|1998|09|04}} (final launch)
{{efn|Google was originally incorporated on September 4, 1998, however, since 2002, the company has celebrated its anniversaries on various days in September, most frequently on September 27.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3250807/google-anniversary/ |title=Google Used to Be the Company That Did 'Nothing But Search' |first=Alex |last=Fitzpatrick |date=September 4, 2014 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/09/27/when-is-googles-21st-birthday-doodle/ |title=When is Google's birthday – and why are people confused? |author=Telegraph Reporters |date=September 27, 2019 |website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/google-birthday-surprise-spinner-date-problem-start-company-a7968951.html |title=Google birthday: The one big problem with the company's celebratory doodle |first=Andrew |last=Griffin |date=September 27, 2019 |website=[[The Independent]] |access-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112103548/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/google-birthday-surprise-spinner-date-problem-start-company-a7968951.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The shift in dates reportedly happened to celebrate index-size milestones in tandem with the birthday.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/05/google.mediabusiness |title=Happy birthday Google |first=Richard |last=Wray |date=September 5, 2008 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>}} in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], California, U.S.
| founders = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Larry Page]]
| [[Sergey Brin]]
}}
| hq_location = 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
| hq_location_city = [[Mountain View, California]]
| hq_location_country = U.S.
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Sundar Pichai]] ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
| [[Ruth Porat]] ([[Chief financial officer|CFO]])
}}
| products = [[List of Google products]]
| num_employees = 114,096
| num_employees_year = {{As of|2020|9|11|alt=Q3 2019}}
| parent = Independent (1997-2015) [[Alphabet Inc.]] (2015–present)
| subsid = [[List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet|List of subsidiaries]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.google.com/|google.com}}
| footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116073513/https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 16, 2015 |title=Company – Google |date=January 16, 2015 |access-date=September 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Thomas |last=Claburn |title=Google Founded By Sergey Brin, Larry Page... And Hubert Chang?!? |url=https://www.informationweek.com/applications/google-founded-by-sergey-brin-larry-page-and-hubert-chang!/d/d-id/1072309 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628231125/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/210603678 |website=[[InformationWeek]] |publisher=[[UBM plc]] |date=September 24, 2008 |archivedate=June 28, 2011 |accessdate=January 22, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/ |title=Locations — Google Jobs |accessdate=September 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930200600/http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/ |archive-date=September 30, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="EmployeesAsOf2018Q4">{{cite press release |date=February 4, 2019 |title=Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter 2018 Results |url=https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf |url-status=live |type=Press release |location=Mountain View, California |publisher=[[Alphabet Inc.]] |page=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204221316/https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2018Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf |archive-date=February 4, 2019 |access-date=February 4, 2019 |quote=Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2018. [...] Q1 2018 financial highlights[:] The following summarizes our consolidated financial results for the quarters ended December 31, 2017 and 2018 [...]: [...] Number of employees [as of] Three Months Ended December 31, 2018 [is] 98,771[.]}}</ref>
}}
'''Google LLC''' is an American [[multinational corporation]] from the [[United States]]. It is known for creating and running one of the largest [[search engine]]s on the [[World Wide Web]] (WWW). Every day more than a [[billion]] people use it. Google's [[headquarters]] (known as the "[[Googleplex]]") is in [[Mountain View, California]], part of [[Silicon Valley]]. The [[motto]] of Google is "Do the right thing".

Since September 2, 2015, Google has been owned by a [[holding company]] called [[Alphabet Inc.]]. That company has taken over some of Google's other projects, such as its [[driver]]less [[car]]s. It is a [[public company]] that [[Stock trading|trades]] on the [[NASDAQ]] under the ticker symbols GOOG and GOOGL.

Google's search engine can find [[picture]]s, [[video]]s, [[news]], [[Usenet]] newsgroups, and things to [[Online shopping|buy online]]. By June 2004, Google had 4.28 billion [[web page]]s on its [[database]], 880 [[million]] pictures and 845 million Usenet messages — six billion things.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/feb/18/internationalnews.onlinesupplement|title=Google expands its search engine|last=Press|first=Associated|date=2004-02-18|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2020-07-21}}</ref> Google's American [[website]] has an [[Alexa]] rank of 1, meaning it is the most widely visited website in the world. It is so widely known that people sometimes use the word "google" as a [[verb]] that means "to search for something on Google". Because more than half of people on the web use it, "google" has also been used to mean "to search the web".

== History ==
[[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]], two students at [[Stanford University]], USA, started BackRub in early 1996. They made it into a company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], [[California]]. In February 1999, the company moved to 165 University Ave., [[Palo Alto, California]], and then moved to another place called the Googleplex.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Brin|first1=Sergey|author-link=Sergey Brin|last2=Page|first2=Lawrence|author-link2=Larry Page|year=1998|title=The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf|journal=Computer Networks and ISDN Systems|volume=30|issue=1–7|pages=107–117|citeseerx=10.1.1.115.5930|doi=10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00110-X}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barroso |first1=L.A. |last2=Dean |first2=J. |last3=Holzle |first3=U. |date=April 29, 2003 |title=Web search for a planet: the google cluster architecture |journal=IEEE Micro |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=22–28 |doi=10.1109/mm.2003.1196112 |s2cid=15886858 |quote=We believe that the best price/performance tradeoff for our applications comes from fashioning a reliable computing infrastructure from clusters of unreliable commodity PCs.|url=https://semanticscholar.org/paper/8db8e53c92af2f97974707119525aa089f6ed53a }}</ref>

In September 2001, Google's rating system (PageRank, for saying which information is more helpful) got a U.S. [[Patent]]. The patent was to Stanford University, with Lawrence (Larry) Page as the [[inventor]] (the person who first had the idea).

Google makes a percentage of its money through [[America Online]] and InterActiveCorp. It has a special group known as the Partner Solutions Organization (PSO) which helps make [[contract]]s, helps to make accounts better and gives engineering help.

== Advertising ==
Google makes money by [[advertising]]. People or companies who want people to buy their product, service, or ideas give Google money, and Google shows an advertisement to people Google thinks will click on the advertisement. Google only gets money when people click on the link, so it tries to know as much about people as possible to only show the advertisement to the "right people". It does this with Google Analytics, which sends data back to Google whenever someone visits a website. From this and other data, Google makes a profile about the person and then uses this profile to figure out which advertisements to show.

== Branding ==
The name "Google" is a misspelling of the word ''[[googol]]''.<ref>Koller, David. "[http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html Origin of the name, "Google."] ''[[Stanford University]].'' January, 2004.</ref><ref name=hiw >{{citation|title=Google revolution|publisher=Imagine Publishing|newspaper=How it Works|pages=40–43|issue=37|date=2012-08-09}}</ref> [[Milton Sirotta]], nephew of U.S. mathematician [[Edward Kasner]], made this word in 1937, for the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes (10100). Google uses this word because the company wants to make lots of stuff on the Web easy to find and use. Andy Bechtolsheim thought of the name.

The name for Google's main office, the "Googleplex," is a play on a different, even bigger number, the "[[googolplex]]", which is 1 followed by one googol of zeroes 1010100.

== Products ==
* [[Android (operating system)|'''Android''']]''' '''is an [[operating system]] for [[mobile device]]s and was originally made by Google as part of the [[Open Handset Alliance]], which Google leads. It is the chief competitor to [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[iOS]] and [[Windows Phone]] by [[Microsoft]] (now discontinued).
* '''[http://adsense.google.com/ Google Adsense]''' is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn money.
* '''[http://analytics.google.com/ Google Analytics]''' is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives one rich insights into his website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
* '''[http://alerts.google.com/ Google Alerts]''' Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on one's choice of query or topic.
* '''[[Google Allo]]''' was software for discussing with other people live.
* '''[[Google Assistant]]''' is a virtual assistant application built into Android devices.
* '''[http://www.blogger.com/ Blogger]''' is a free tool that allows users to publish [[blog]]s on a Google website.
* '''[https://books.google.com Google Books]''' lets people search for books.
* '''[http://calendar.google.com Google Calendar]''' is an online [[calendar]].
* '''[[Google Chrome]]''' is a web browser that Google made.
*[[Google Classroom|'''Google Classroom''']] is an online system for students. It was popular during [[COVID-19 pandemic|COVID-19]].
* '''[http://docs.google.com Google Docs]''' is an online Google full of docs.
* '''[http://docs.google.com Google Drive]''' is an online document editor.
* '''[[Google Earth]]''' is the [[3D]] version of [[Google Maps]] with a [[digital]] [[globe]].
* '''[[Google Groups]]''' is a place for users to discuss topics. Google bought [[Deja News]] in 2001 and made it into Google Groups.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fanlore.org/wiki/Deja_News|title = Deja News - Fanlore}}</ref>
* '''[http://images.google.com Google Images]''' is an [[image]] search [[utility]].
* '''[[Google Maps]]''' is a service from Google to provide satellite pictures and road maps for everywhere around the world.
* '''[https://news.google.com Google News]''' is a [[facility]] which shows [[news]] stories from over 4,500 news [[source]]s. [https://news.google.com/archivesearch Google News Archives]
* '''[http://pay.google.com Google Pay]''' is a way to pay online. Users can send money using their [[credit card]]s or [[bank account]]s to other users.
* '''[https://photos.google.com/ Google Photos]''' is a software for organizing and editing photos.
*'''[[Google Play]]'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://play.google.com/store?hl=en|title=Google Play|language=en|access-date=2018-11-23}}</ref> is a sector that has games, and other things.
* '''[https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products?tab=wh Google Products]''' is a pack of Google software.
* '''[[Google Search]]''' is a search [[utility]].
* '''[http://www.google.com/products Google Shopping]''' lets the user find out about things for sale on the [[Internet]].
* '''[[Google Translate]]''' is an online [[translation]] service. It can translate websites and text into other languages.
* '''[http://sites.google.com/ Google Sites]''' is a service for making websites.
* '''[[Google Video]]''' is a [[video]] search [[utility]].
* '''[[Google+]]''' was a [[social networking]] service that is like [[Facebook]]. The service launched on June 28, 2011.
* '''[[Google Mail|Gmail]]''' is an [[e-mail]] service that Google started in 2004. It is called '''Google Mail''' in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[Germany]]. Users get free space to store e-mail.
* '''[[Google Talk|Hangouts]]''' is an [[instant messenger]] where one can talk to friends. it will shut down in late 2021 [https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-to-shut-down-hangouts-migrate-users-to-google-chat/ More Info Here]
* [[Sidewalk Labs]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://business.financialpost.com/technology/early-facebook-backer-urges-toronto-to-abandon-smart-city-project-with-googles-sidewalk-labs|title=Order of Canada architect, Silicon Valley investor call for rethink of Sidewalk Labs' Toronto waterfront project|newspaper=Financial Post|date=6 June 2019|last1=Zochodne|first1=Geoff}}</ref>
*'''[[YouTube]]''' is a [[video]] hosting service which was bought by Google from [[PayPal]] for 1.65 billion dollars and now runs as a Google service.

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{sisterlinks|Google}}
* {{URL|https://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management|Corporate homepage}}
* [https://www.google.com The search engine]
* {{dmoz|Computers/Companies/Google%2C_Inc./}}
* {{crunchbase|Google|Google}}

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