Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. It is considered one of the Big Five technology companies in the U.S. information technology industry, alongside Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google. com is the most visited website worldwide.
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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. It is considered one of the Big Five technology companies in the U.S. information technology industry, alongside Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft. Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph. D. students at Stanford University in California. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet’s leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet’s Internet interests. Google. com is the most visited website worldwide. Several other Google-owned websites also are on the list of most popular websites, including YouTube and Blogger. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices. It released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel line of smartphones, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. It was the most valuable brand in the world in 2017, but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. It has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier.
Google.com was registered on September 4, 1997, and the company was incorporated in the Menlo Park, California garage of a friend of Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student. The name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word “googol”; the number 1 was intended to signify that Google would provide large quantities of information. The first employee at Google was Andy Bechtolsheim, who was hired as the first employee in August 1998, with an contribution of USD 100,000 from a fellow student, Andy Bechstein. In September 1998, Google was incorporated as a California privately held company in California; it was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. In October 2002, Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In November 2002, the company went public with an initial public offering of $1 billion in shares. In December 2003, Google went public again with a $2 billion share offering. In March 2004, Google became a publicly traded company with a share value of $2.1 billion. In April 2005, Google launched the Google Play app, a mobile app that allows users to play games on the go. In May 2005, it launched a mobile version of its search engine, called Google Play. In July 2007, Google began a partnership with Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of AT&T, to develop the Android operating system. In June 2008, the two companies announced a partnership to develop Android Wear, a smartwatch that runs on Android smartphones and tablets.
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