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Overview of Google LLC and Its Services

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and is now a multinational technology company specializing in internet services such as search engines, advertising, cloud computing, hardware, and software. It has expanded rapidly through acquisitions and partnerships beyond its core search engine to offer services like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, YouTube, Android, and Chrome. Google is the most visited website in the world and the most valuable brand, though it has also faced significant criticism around issues like privacy, taxes, and neutrality.

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Overview of Google LLC and Its Services

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and is now a multinational technology company specializing in internet services such as search engines, advertising, cloud computing, hardware, and software. It has expanded rapidly through acquisitions and partnerships beyond its core search engine to offer services like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, YouTube, Android, and Chrome. Google is the most visited website in the world and the most valuable brand, though it has also faced significant criticism around issues like privacy, taxes, and neutrality.

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Google LLC[5] is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-

related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search
engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Fourtechnology
companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook.[6][7]
Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students
at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control
56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google
as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on
August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed
the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a
conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be
the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of
Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of Alphabet.
The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions,
and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers services
designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email
(Gmail/Inbox), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google
Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Google Allo, Duo, Hangouts), language translation
(Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View),
video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Keep), and photo organizing and editing (Google
Photos). The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system,
the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the
Chrome browser. Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered
with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices, and it released
multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google
Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality
headset. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber, Project
Fi, and Google Station).[8]
[Link] is the most visited website in the world.[9] Several other Google services also figure
in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google is the most
valuable brand in the world as of 2017,[10] but has received significant criticisminvolving issues
such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality.
Google's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful". The companies unofficial slogan "Don't be evil" was removed from the
company's code of conduct around May 2018.[11][12

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