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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet search and online advertising. It's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google is now widely recognized as the world's largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.The first funding for Google as a compan... more

Date founded:

Sep 7, 1998

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Founders

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at...

Larry Page

Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as president of products in...

Address

Google Headquarters

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View California 94043

United States of America

Products

Sponsorship

OSCON 2009

Revenue:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	10,604,920,000
US$	10,604,900,000	Dec 31, 2006

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Operating income:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	4,121,900,000	Dec 31, 2006

Market capitalization:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	220,000,000,000	Dec 31, 2007

Net income:

Currency	Amount
US$	3,077,000,000

Board members:

Member	Title	From	To
Sergey Brin
Larry Page
Eric E. Schmidt	Chair
John Doerr
K. Ram Shriram
John L. Hennessy		2004
Arthur D. Levinson			Oct 2009
Paul S. Otellini
Shirley M. Tilghman
Ann Mather

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Number of employees:

number	date
10,000	2006
12,238	Mar 31, 2007
13,748	Jun 30, 2007

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Ticker symbol:

Stock exchange	Ticker symbol
NASDAQ	GOOG
LSE	GGEA

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Slogan:

Don't be evil

Previous names:

Backrub

Subsidiary companies:

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Companies acquired:

Company acquired	Date
YouTube	Nov 2006
Jaiku
FeedBurner
Postini	2007
GrandCentral	Jul 2007
DoubleClick	Mar 11, 2008
JotSpot
Blogger
Keyhole	2004

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Employees and other personnel:

Person	Title	To
Salar Kamangar	Vice President of Product Management
David lawee	Vice President of Marketing
Marissa Mayer	Vice President, Search Products & User Experience
Mario Queiroz	Vice President, Product Management, EMEA & Latin America
Lorraine Twohill	Vice President, Marketing, EMEA
Susan Wojcicki	Vice President of Product Management
Daniel Alegre	Vice President, Latin America and APLA Business Development
Tim Armstrong	President, Advertising and Commerce, North America, & Vice President, Google Inc.	Mar 2009
Nikesh Arora	President, EMEA Operations & Vice President, Google Inc.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy	Vice President, Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations

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Computers

Operating Systems Developed

Google Chrome OS

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Visiting scholars, fellows, etc.:

Person	Position or title
Zoltán Gyöngyi	Research Scientist

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Internet

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Google

Website status:

Active

Sub Web Properties:

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Organization

Member of:

Organization	From
Open Handset Alliance	Nov 5, 2007
Interactive Advertising Bureau

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Organizations founded:

Open Handset Alliance

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Literature Subject

Works Written About This Topic

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Awards

Appears in ranked lists:

List	Rank	Year
Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For	4	2009
Fortune 1000	117	2009
Fortune 1000	150	2008
Fortune 1000	353	2006

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Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For of 2009

Awards presented:

Google O'Reilly Open Source Award

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Facts from the Community

From the Database base

Database(s):

Google Scholar

Database(s):

Google Scholar

From the Argument mapping base

Disparagement:

Google Watch

From the News events base

News-reports:

Event	Url	Title	Date
2009 Peruvian political crisis	http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j9pNpad9T95Yc7VQREA4BViTQRhwD98LFOBG1	9 more police killed in Amazon protests in Peru	Jun 6, 2009

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Revenue:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	21,795,550,000	Dec 31, 2008

Net profit:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	4,226,860,000	Dec 31, 2008

Cash:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	8,656,670,000	Dec 31, 2008

Current Assets:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	20,178,180,000	Dec 31, 2008

Total Assets:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	31,767,580,000	Dec 31, 2008

Current Liabilities:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	2,302,090,000	Dec 31, 2008

Total Liabilities:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	3,528,710,000	Dec 31, 2008

Retained Earnings:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	13,561,630,000	Dec 31, 2008

Competitive space:

Online advertising

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