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Overview of Google Company Profile

Google is an American multinational technology company that specializes in internet search, cloud computing, and online advertising. It generates most of its profits through its AdWords program. The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has since grown to over 1 billion monthly users through acquisitions and new products like Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Translate, Chrome browser, Chrome OS, YouTube, and Google+.

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Overview of Google Company Profile

Google is an American multinational technology company that specializes in internet search, cloud computing, and online advertising. It generates most of its profits through its AdWords program. The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and has since grown to over 1 billion monthly users through acquisitions and new products like Google Search, Gmail, Google Docs, Google Translate, Chrome browser, Chrome OS, YouTube, and Google+.

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Google is an American multinational Internet and software corporation specialized in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.

It hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program.

The word google means the number one, followed by one hundred zeros, which was chosen to mean that the browser wants to provide large amounts of information for people.
The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were both attending Stanford University.

The company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 1 billion for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931 million). In March 1999, the company moved its offices to Palo Alto, California. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil. At the beginning, Google search could be performed in only one language, and now in several languages. Since 2001, Google has acquired many companies, mainly focusing on small venture capital companies. 2007. Google bought the online video site YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.

Enterprise products
Google entered the enterprise market in February 2002 with the launch of its Google Search Appliance, targeted toward providing search technology for larger organizations. Another one of Google's enterprise products is Google Apps Premier Edition. The service, and its accompanying Google Apps Education Edition and Standard Edition, allow companies, schools, and other organizations to bring Google's online applications, such as Gmail and Google Documents, into its own domain.

Other products
Google Translate is a server-side machine translation service, which can translate between 35 different languages. Browser extensions allow for easy access to Google Translate from the browser. The software uses corpus linguistics techniques, where the program "learns" from professionally translated documents, specifically UN and European Parliament proceedings. Furthermore, a "suggest a better translation" feature accompanies the translated text, allowing users to indicate where the current translation is incorrect or otherwise inferior to another translation. On September 1, 2008, Google pre-announced the upcoming availability of Google Chrome, an open source web browser which was then released on September 2, 2008. The next year, on July 7, 2009, Google announced Google Chrome OS, an open source Linux-based operating system that includes only a web browser and is designed to log users into their Google account. In late June 2011, Google soft-launched a social networking service called Google+. On 14 July 2011, Google announced that Google+ had reached 10 million users just two weeks after it was launched in this "limited" trial phase. After four weeks in operation, it had reached 25 million users.

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