What Is Google ?

What Is Google ?

Google Is an American MNC which deals with internet related services and products including search , software , online advertising and cloud computing.

Minds Behind Google ?

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.

Larry Page is is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur .As of 2013, Page's personal wealth is estimated to be US$20.3 billion, ranking him #13 on the Forbes 400 list of the 400 richest Americans.

Page is the inventor of PageRank, the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm, and he and Brin own approximately 16 percent of Google's stock.

Page is an investor in Tesla Motors. He has invested in renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.At the question and answer section of the 2013 Google I/O keynote talk, Larry Page expressed an interest in Burning Man.

Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur.He has a net worth of around US$24.4 Billion as on September 2013.

Google Products And Services ?

Google has numerous number of products in the internet arena.Some of the google products are as follow :

1.Google Search : It is the dominant search engine in US market with share of 65.6%.Google Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day.Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability. These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores.

2. GMAIL : Gmail, a free webmail service provided by Google, was launched as an invitation-only beta program on April 1, 2004,and became available to the general public on February 7, 2007.The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009,at which time it had 146 million users monthly.The service was the first online email service with one gigabyte of storage. 

It was also the first to keep emails from the same conversation together in one thread, similar to an Internet forum.The service offers over 15 GB of free storage, shared with other Google Apps, with additional storage ranging from 20 GB to 16 TB available for US$0.25 per 1 GB per year.

3.Google Docs : It is a freeware web-based office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It was formerly a storage service as well, but has since been replaced by Drive.It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with other users live. Google Docs combines the features of Writely and Spreadsheets with a presentation program incorporating technology designed by Tonic Systems.

4.Google Translate : It is a free, multilingual statistical machine-translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into another.

5.Google News : It is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.

6.Google Fiber : is Google's fiber-to-the-premises service in the United States, providing broadband internet and television to a small and slowly growing number of locations.The service was first introduced to Kansas City, Kansas,and is being rolled out to Kansas City, Missouri, with plans for expansion to several other Kansas City area suburbs, as well as Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah. In February 2014, Google announced they had chosen another 34 cities as candidates for future expansion

7.Android : is an operating system based on the Linux kernel,and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance: a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.The first publicly available smartphone running Android, the HTC Dream, was released on October 22, 2008

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8.Google Goggles : is a downloadable image recognition application created by Google which can currently be found on the Mobile Apps page of Google Mobile. It is used for searches based on pictures taken by handheld devices. For example, taking a picture of a famous landmark would search for information about it, or taking a picture of a product's barcode will search for information on the product.

9.Apache Wave Or Google Wave : is a software framework for real-time collaborative editing online. Google originally developed it as Google Wave.It was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009.

Wave is a web-based computing platform and communications protocol designed to merge key features of communications media such as email, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. Communications using the system can be synchronous or asynchronous. Software extensions provide contextual spelling and grammar checking, automated language translationand other features.


10.Google Wallet : It is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone. Google Wallet can use near field communication(NFC) to "make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at checkout."

11.Google+ : is a social networking and identity service. Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties, and that it is not simply a social networking website, but also an authorship tool that associates web-content directly with its owner/author.It is the second-largest social networking site in the world after Facebook. 540 million monthly active users are part of the Identity service side, by interacting socially with Google+'s enhanced properties, like Gmail, +1 button, and YouTube comments.In October 2013, Google counted 540 million active users, of which 300 million users are active in "the stream"

12. Google Shopping Express : is a same-day shopping service from Google Inc. launched on a free trial basis in San Francisco and Silicon Valley in spring 2013 and publicly launched in September that year.

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