Google LLC is an American multinational era enterprise that specializes in Internet-associated services and products, which consist of on line advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is taken into consideration one of the five Big Tech businesses together with Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft.[9][10][11]
Google LLC
Each letter of "Google" is colored (from left to right) in blue, red, yellow, blue, green, and pink.
Logo due to the fact 2015
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Google's headquarters, the Googleplex
Formerly
Google Inc. (1998–2017)
Type
Subsidiary (LLC)
Industry
Internet
Cloud computing
Computer software
Computer hardware
Artificial intelligence
Advertising
Founded
September 4, 1998; 22 years ago[a] in Menlo Park, California, United States
Founders
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Headquarters
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key human beings
Sundar Pichai (CEO)
Ruth Porat (CFO)
Products
List of merchandise
Revenue
182,527,000,000 United States dollar (2020)
Operating earnings
41,224,000,000 United States dollar (2020)
Net income
forty,269,000,000 United States dollar (2020)
Total assets
319,616,000,000 United States dollar (2020)
Number of personnel
139,995 (2021)
Parent
Alphabet Inc.
Website
google.Com
Footnotes / references
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Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page sitting together
Then-CEO, and previous Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt with cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (left to proper) in 2008.
Google turned into based in September 1998 with the aid of Larry Page and Sergey Brin at the same time as they had been Ph.D. College students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its stocks and manipulate fifty six% of the stockholder balloting power through fantastic-voting inventory. Google changed into included in California on September 4, 1998. Google become then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002.[12] In July 2003, Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. The company have become a public enterprise thru an initial public imparting (IPO) on August 19, 2004. In October 2015, Google reorganized as a subsidiary of a conglomerate referred to as Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's biggest subsidiary and is a holding agency for Alphabet's Internet pursuits. Sundar Pichai turned into appointed CEO of Google, changing Larry Page, who have become the CEO of Alphabet. In 2021, the Alphabet Workers Union changed into founded, in particular composed of Google personnel.[13]
The company's speedy growth considering that incorporation has included merchandise, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core seek engine, (Google Search). It gives services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), e mail (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud garage (Google Drive), immediate messaging and video chat (Google Duo, Hangouts, Google Chat, and Google Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, and Street View), podcast website hosting (Google Podcasts), video sharing (YouTube), weblog publishing (Blogger), notice-taking (Google Keep and Jamboard), and photograph organizing and modifying (Google Photos). The company leads the improvement of the Android cellular running gadget, the Google Chrome internet browser, and Chrome OS, a light-weight operating machine based on the Chrome browser. Google has moved an increasing number of into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with primary electronics producers within the manufacturing of its Google Nexus gadgets, and it launched a couple of hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel line of smartphones, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wi-fi router, and Google Daydream digital truth headset. Google has additionally experimented with becoming an Internet provider (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station).[14]
Google.Com is the most visited website international. Several other Google-owned web sites also are at the listing of maximum famous web sites, together with YouTube and Blogger.[15]
On the list of most valuable manufacturers, Google is ranked second by means of Forbes[16] and fourth by way of Interbrand.[17] It has received big criticism regarding troubles such as privacy worries, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, antitrust and abuse of its monopoly function.
