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Google LLC: Overview of a Tech Giant

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and is now a multinational technology conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. It provides many internet-related services and products including search engines, online advertising, cloud computing, software, hardware, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Android, and Chrome. Google has expanded beyond its core search engine through acquisitions and partnerships and moved into new areas such as hardware, internet carrier services, and virtual reality.

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Google LLC: Overview of a Tech Giant

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and is now a multinational technology conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. It provides many internet-related services and products including search engines, online advertising, cloud computing, software, hardware, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, Android, and Chrome. Google has expanded beyond its core search engine through acquisitions and partnerships and moved into new areas such as hardware, internet carrier services, and virtual reality.

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Google, LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-

related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search


engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big
Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.[10][11][12]
Google was founded in September 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 California privately held company on September 4, 1998, in California.
Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002.[13] 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), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive),
instant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts, and Meet), language translation (Google
Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, and Street View),
podcast hosting (Google Podcasts), video sharing (YouTube), blog publishing (Blogger), note-
taking (Google Keep, and Google Jamboard), 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, Google Fi, and Google
Station).[14]

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