Google's 13th Birthday- We wish Happy Birthday to Google.
Google celebrates 13th birthday with Google Doodle
Google Inc. is an American
multinational public corporation invested in Internet
search, cloud computing, and
advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based
services and products, and
generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as PhD candidates. It was first
incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that
time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at
Google for twenty years, until the year 2024. 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 – coined by Google engineer Amit Patel and supported by Paul Buchheit – is "Don't be
evil". In 2006, the company
moved to its current headquarters in Mountain
View, California.
It has been estimated that Google runs over one
million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one
billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day. Google's
rapid growth since its incorporation has triggered a chain of products,
acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The
company offers online productivity software, such as its Gmail email service, and social networking tools, including orkut and, more recently, Google Buzz and Google+.
Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications such as the
web browser Google Chrome, the Picasa photo organization and editing
software, and the Google Talk instant messaging application. Notably, Google leads the
development of the Android mobile operating system, used on a number of
phones such as the Motorola Droid and the Samsung Galaxy smart phone series', as well as the
new Google Chrome OS best known as the main operating
system on the Cr-48 and also, since 15 June 2011, on
commercial Chrome books such as the Samsung Series 5 and Acer
AC700. Alexa lists the main U.S.-focused google.com
site as the Internet's most visited website, and numerous international Google
sites (google.co.in(14) is the most visited site in India, google.co.uk in the
U.K, etc.) are in the top hundred, as are several other Google-owned sites such
as YouTube (Alexa:3), Blogger(Alexa:6), and Orkut. Google also ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database. The dominant
market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy,
copyright, and censorship.
The search engine marks entering its teens by turning its home page into a birthday party scene.
Surrounded by multi-coloured balloons and streamers, its logo is adorned with party hats and sits behind a table heaped with wrapped presents and a large white birthday cake with 13 candles.
Although Google's founders, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built their first search engine in 1996, it was not until 1998 that they formalised their work and created Google.
The company filed for incorporation on September 4, 1998, and the Google.com domain was registered on September 15. The search engine officially celebrates its birthday on September 27.
The pair came up with the name as a play on the word “googol”, the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
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