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 The Google logo used since 2015 | |
.jpg) Google's headquarters, the Googleplex | |
| Formerly | Google Inc. (1998–2017) |
|---|---|
| Company type | Subsidiary (LLC) |
| Industry | |
| Founded | 1995 (first prototype) 1997 (second prototype) September 4, 1998 (final launch)[a] in Menlo Park, California, U.S. |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | |
| Products | List of Google products |
Number of employees | 114,096 (Q3 2019[update]) |
| Parent | Independent (1997-2015) Alphabet Inc. (2015–present) |
| Website | google.com |
| Footnotes / references [5][6][7][8] | |
Google is an American multinational corporation from the United States. known for creating and running one of the largest search engines on the World Wide Web, also known as the (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 driverless cars. It is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbols GOOG and GOOGL.
Google's search engine can find pictures, videos, news, Usenet newsgroups, and things to buy online. By June 2004, Google had 4.28 billion web pages on its database, 880 million pictures and 845 million Usenet messages—six billion things.[9] 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". Most importantly, Google created the Google Gnome Game in June of 2010.[10]
- ↑ Fitzpatrick, Alex (September 4, 2014). "Google Used to Be the Company That Did 'Nothing But Search'". Time.
- ↑ Telegraph Reporters (September 27, 2019). "When is Google's birthday – and why are people confused?". The Telegraph.
- ↑ Griffin, Andrew (September 27, 2019). "Google birthday: The one big problem with the company's celebratory doodle". The Independent. Archived from the original on January 12, 2021. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
- ↑ Wray, Richard (September 5, 2008). "Happy birthday Google". The Guardian.
- ↑ "Company – Google". January 16, 2015. Archived from the original on January 16, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
- ↑ Claburn, Thomas (September 24, 2008). "Google Founded By Sergey Brin, Larry Page... And Hubert Chang?!?". InformationWeek. UBM plc. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
- ↑ "Locations — Google Jobs". Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2013.
- ↑ "Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter 2018 Results" (PDF) (Press release). Mountain View, California: Alphabet Inc. February 4, 2019. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 4, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
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[.]
- ↑ Press, Associated (2004-02-18). "Google expands its search engine". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ↑ Morris, Seren (2020-05-01). "Popular Google Doodle Games: Launch Garden Gnomes From a Catapult". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
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