Google Inc. is an American based public corporation company. This company was launched in January 1996. It is famous for internet search, advertisement and other technologies. It offers a number of internet related services, products and generates profit through advertisements by Ad Words program. The founders of this company are Larry Page and Sergey Brin. From 2006, the company changed its headquarters to Mountain View, California.
Google has hired at least one million servers in data centre around the world. It deals with one billion search requests. Fast growth of Google and its popularity opened the doors of launching many other products under the Google Corporation. The company provides many services such as Gmail email software, productivity software and social networking like orkut and Google buzz. It has a number of software and browser like Google chrome, Picasa photo organization and editing software. Google has undertaken many companies such as keyhole Inc. this company developed a product named as ‘earth viewer’ that gives a 3-D view of earth .In 2005, this service was renamed as Google earth. After 2 years it launched online video site known as you Tube for $1.65 billion in stock. Google also shared a partnership with NASA Ames Research Centre in 2005, it focused on to built 1,000,000 square feet of office. This office would mainly be used for research products involving large scale data management, the space industry, and nanotechnology and distributed computing. In the same year Google did partnership with Sun Micro system in October 2005, to share, help and distribute each other technology.
Google earns 99% of its revenue from advertisements. The most popular service of Google is its search engine. It enables the user to search the information they desire by using keywords and operators. Google has achieved phenomenal success in the field of information technology.
