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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.
Recent Google News
Google Docs comments are being actively used for phishing
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Google joining the war against Log4j exploits
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Google is to train 40 million people
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Cookie theft malware targets popular YouTube channels
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Google to release Anthos for VMs and tools to simplify the developer experience
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Google revamps its Vulnerability Reward Program
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Google announced automated security tool Scorecards v2
Google announced Scorecards v2 with new security checks, a scaled-up number of projects being scored, and easy accessibility for analysis. ...
Google plans to build a data center in Québec
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Google loses Argentinian URL to a web designer
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Chrome 90 to use HTTPS by default
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Google to ban Spanish certificate authority
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Google blocks other Chromium-based browsers from its sync service
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Parler.com domain moves to Epik
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Google continues to donate for Kubernetes project
Google Cloud has recommitted $3 million for another year in cloud credits to maintain its support of the Kubernetes project. ...
Massive Google outage affects Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and others
Google's services went offline for almost an hour on Monday, 14th December. The outage was caused by an error in ...
Google and Amazon fined 155 million Euro by French regulator
A French regulator, the CNIL’s restricted committee, which is responsible for imposing sanctions, fined the company Amazon Europe Core and ...
Google to open the second Dutch data center
Google operates hyper-scale data centers across Europe: Fredericia in Denmark, St. Ghislain-Mons in Belgium, Hamina-Kotka in Finland, Dublin in Ireland, ...
