What is Google:
The term Google It has its origin in mathematics, Google comes from googol, which is the number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros. He googol It has little use, only to explain the difference between a large number and infinity, and due to its magnitude, the founders of Google decided to adapt the term to name their company.
Google is an American multinational company specializing in services and products related to software, the Internet, electronic devices and other technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based products and services and the majority of its revenue is generated through AdWords advertising. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Google Inc. was founded in 1998, as a private company, and with the mission of organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful. Almost eight years after its founding, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
The origin of the colors that make up the name Google is based on the fact that the original computer used for the Google project was built with Lego.
Google’s main product is the Internet content search engine that bears its same name. Google runs across more than one million servers in data centers around the world, processing more than one billion search requests and twenty petabytes of data generated by users every day.
The company also offers other services, such as online productivity software, such as Gmail email, and social networks such as Orkut, Google Buzz and Google +.
Google also has products such as the Google Chrome browser, the photo editing organization program Picasa, Google Translate, Google Docs, its Google Maps and Google Earth mapping services.
The YouTube video website, other web utilities such as Google Books or Google News. For file hosting you have Google Drive, Google Calendar. Its online Android application store, Google Play, and the instant messaging application, Google Talk, among others.
Currently, Google is also a leader in the development of the mobile operating system for smartphones, Android, which is used on mobile phones and tablets. And it is working on an augmented reality glasses project, Google Glass, on a fiber optic service, Google Fiber, and on autonomous vehicles.
Alexa ranks Google as the most visited website in the world. It has been ranked by Fortune magazine as the fourth best place in the world to work, and as the most powerful brand in the world by BrandZ.
Google is also quite irreverent about its offices and work environments in general, Googleplex. In them, employees can play, exercise, take their pets, all during work hours.
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