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- Legal Name: Google Inc.
- Website: www.google.com
- Founded: 1998
- Founder(s): Larry Page, Sergey Brin
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
- Stock Symbol: NASDAQ: GOOG
What is Google?
The search engine designed by two university students became one of the biggest companies in the world today. Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin were working on a search engine, named BackRub. University’s computer was not capable of running the engine, so they decided to register the domain, Google, in 1997. Shortly after, Google raised $100,000 funding from Andy Bechtolsheim and Google hired its first employee, another student from Stanford, Craig Silverstein. Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos was also invested in the company during its early stages.
Google proved its search engine capabilities and gained popularity quickly. Larry Page received a patent for PageRank technology in 2001 and it boosted the capabilities of the engine. During the following years, Google launched a variety of products that changed the internet habits of many people. Some of them are Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, and the popular web browser Chrome. The company also acquired the popular video platform YouTube and Blogger.com. The company also launched a cloud service named Google Cloud Platform. As smartphones becoming popular lately, Google decided to create an operating system for mobile devices, Android, and it became the most popular mobile OS. Android is now installed on many other devices such as watches, smart glasses, home appliances, cameras, smart TVs cars, etc. Google also released its own branded devices, such as Nexus smartphones, Google Home, Google Fi, Chromebooks, and Stadia.
In 2015 Google decided to reconstruct its divisions. A new parent company is formed with the name, Alphabet and Google became a subsidiary of the parent company. Sergey Brin became the president of the Alphabet and Larry Page is appointed as the CEO. Later, Sundar Pichai took Brin’s position. With all these successful products, Google became a tech giant and one of the most powerful and biggest companies in the world.
Google News
Google is releasing a new AI chatbot: Bard
Google is releasing a chatbot called Bard to compete with ChatGPT. Bard is designed to be helpful and entertaining. It ...
Google to bring Google Cloud region to Kuwait
Google plans to bring a new Google Cloud region to Kuwait to support its growing customer base. The forthcoming Kuwait ...
Google is shutting down its website optimization solution
Google announced that the company is shutting down its Google Optimize and Optimize 360 services on September 30, 2023. The ...
Intel to layoff hundreds of workers
Intel joins Amazon, Twitter, HP, Google, and many more in laying off hundreds of workers because of economic uncertainty. Hundreds ...
Google Workspace now lets users set their pronouns
Users of Google Workspace can now set their pronouns in their profiles, possibly creating an inclusive working environment. Users can ...
Google reducing workforce by 12,000 roles
In recent years, big companies have been forced to make difficult decisions due to economic downturns and changing market conditions. ...
Microsoft to add OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Word, Outlook and more
OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is to be integrated into Microsoft's Word, Outlook, Powerpoint, and more apps. While Google is ...
Google is paying $29.5 million for two lawsuit settlements
Google is paying $29.5 million in total to settle lawsuits in Washington and Indiana over users' location tracking practices. Google ...
The World Cup final breaks multiple search records online
Thousands of people searching for The World Cup simultaneously caused search records to be broken on multiple platforms such as ...
Apple, Google, and Mozilla collaborating on Speedometer 3
Apple, Google, and Mozilla are working on the next Speedometer benchmark to measure real-world browser performance. Google aims to include ...
Gmail’s client-side encryption is now in beta
Gmail client-side encryption beta, allows users to send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside of their domain. ...
Google unveils OSV-Scanner, a new open-source security scan tool
Google has announced a new tool, OSV-Scanner, a free scanner that open-source developers can use to get vulnerability details relevant ...
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle share Pentagon’s $9 billion cloud contract
The U.S. department of defense has said Google, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon will share in the Pentagon’s $9 billion contract, ...
Google announces continuous scrolling to desktop search results
Google has announced that it is bringing continuous scrolling to desktops in English in the U.S. starting on 6 December ...
Google shares details of the Heliconia exploitation framework
Heliconia framework exploits n-day vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Defender and provides all the tools necessary to deploy a ...
Google and Engie sign 100 MW PPA for Google Cloud in UK
Google and French renewables energy company Engie sign a power purchase agreement for a power station located in Scotland, United ...
Google’s AI is capable to write its own code
Google has announced its plan to use AI to write its own code on a newly launched platform named code ...
Google signs 942 MW solar PPA with SB Energy to power its servers
Google has signed a PPA for 942 MW of energy from renewables with California-based renewable operator SB Energy. The energy ...
Google announced its first Japan data center
Google is opening its first data center in Inzai City, Chiba in 2023, as a part of a $730 million ...
Google announced its first African cloud region in South Africa
Google announced that South Africa will be joining Google Cloud’s global network of 35 cloud regions and 106 zones worldwide. ...
Google Cloud Next ’22 kicks off on October 11
Google Cloud Next ‘22 kicks off on October 11 at 9 AM PDT with a 24-hour digital broadcast featuring 5 ...
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