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'''Google''' is a multi-national company providing search, advertising, cloud computing services and many other business solutions. The company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html Google Mission]</ref> The company ranked 4th on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2011.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/snapshots/4.html Fortune]</ref>
'''Google''' is a multi-national company providing search, advertising, cloud computing services and many other business solutions. The company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html Google Mission]</ref> The company ranked 4th on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2011.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/snapshots/4.html Fortune]</ref>
==Origins of Google==
In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Stanford University graduate students partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determines the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Stanford University graduate students partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determines the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
On September 4, 1998, Google was incorporated in California. The company started its business operations in a garage at Menlo Park. Craig Silverstein, was the first employee hired by Page and Brin, a fellow computer science graduate from Stanford.PC Magazine recognized Google as one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
On September 4, 1998, Google was incorporated in California. The company started its business operations in a garage at Menlo Park. Craig Silverstein, was the first employee hired by Page and Brin, a fellow computer science graduate from Stanford.PC Magazine recognized Google as one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
==First Investors==
[[Andy Bechtolsheim]], co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]] was Google's first investor in 1998 followed by [[Ram Shriram]], former President of Junglee and current Managing Director at [[Sherpalo Ventures]]. On June 7, 1999, Google received a major equity funding of $25 million from '''Sequoia Capital''' and '''Kleiner Perkins'''; '''John Doerr''' and '''Michael Moritz''' join the company's board of directors.<ref>
[[Andy Bechtolsheim]], co-founder of [[Sun Microsystems]] was Google's first investor in 1998 followed by [[Ram Shriram]], former President of Junglee and current Managing Director at [[Sherpalo Ventures]]. On June 7, 1999, Google received a major equity funding of $25 million from '''Sequoia Capital''' and '''Kleiner Perkins'''; '''John Doerr''' and '''Michael Moritz''' join the company's board of directors.<ref>
[http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20000309205910/http://google.com/pressrel/pressrelease1.html Press Release]</ref>
[http://classic-web.archive.org/web/20000309205910/http://google.com/pressrel/pressrelease1.html Press Release]</ref>
===Timeline: 2000-2005===
==Recognized Computer Scientist Joined Google==
DARPA scientist [[Vinton Cerf]] joined Google on September 8 and 13, 2005 as Chief Internet Evangelist<ref>[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/cerfs-up-at-google.html Google Blog]</ref> and '''Dr. Kaifu Lee''' as head of the Google's China R & D Center. [[Microsoft]] filed a suit against Dr. Lee and Google with an argument that the violated the one year non-compete agreement on his contract with the company. <ref>[http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-09-13/business/17391707_1_kai-fu-lee-noncompete-agreement-google sfgate.com]</ref> Microsoft and Google arrived a settlement agreement over Dr. Lee's hiring on December of the same year.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-6006342.html CNET]</ref>
==Company Growth and Expansion==
In 2000, Google is already available in different languages which include French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish,<ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease22.html Google Goes Global]</ref> Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease34.html Global Expansion]</ref> The Google Adwords was launched with 350 customers and Google Toolbar. On June 11, 2000, the google home page became the largest search engine with 1 billion items.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2000 Timeline Year 2000]</ref>
In 2000, Google is already available in different languages which include French, German, Italian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish,<ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease22.html Google Goes Global]</ref> Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease34.html Global Expansion]</ref> The Google Adwords was launched with 350 customers and Google Toolbar. On June 11, 2000, the google home page became the largest search engine with 1 billion items.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2000 Timeline Year 2000]</ref>
In 2001, Google is already available in 26 languages, Eric Schmidt was appointed Chairman and Wayne Rosing was hired as VP for Engineering.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2000 Timeline Year 2001]</ref> The following year, Schmidt was elected CEO while Page assumed the position of president for products and Brin became president for technology.<ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/ceo.html Press Release]</ref>
The company also launched the '''Google Search Appliance,'''new device that will allow corporations to use its search technology to scan their own networks, <ref>[http://news.cnet.com/Google-aims-search-device-at-companies/2100-1023_3-833905.html CNET]</ref> '''Adwords Select''', an enhanced version of Adwords was released, a self-service advertising system with the Cost-Per Click (CPC)feature, <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/select.html Press Release]</ref> the First '''Google API''' which enables developers to query more than 2 billion web documents and programs in their favorite environments, and the '''Google Labs'''.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-919173.html Google ushers Web surfers into its labs]</ref> The Google News and Froogle was also launched.Since then Google has released numerous products and services for internet users and businesses worldwide.
==Initial Public Offering==
Google's Initial Public Offering (IPO) was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2004.<ref>[http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/google/ipo/ds1.pdf SEC Document]</ref> and offered 19.6 million shares at a price of $85 per share. <ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040819_6843_tc120.htm Businessweek.com]</ref>
===International Offices===
The company also opened its international offices in Australia, India, Japan, Korea, Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Belgium, Denmark, Copehagen, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary Ireland,Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,Ukraine, United Kingdom and many other countries around the world.
===Google China Local Domain===
'''Google.cn''', a local domain version of Google in China was launched in 2006 with some government restrictions. Google.com is down 10% most of the time, Google news is never available. Chinese government has been blocking and re-directing users searches to other websites.<ref>[
http://www.pcworld.com/article/104813/china_hijacks_googles_domain_name.html pcworld.com]</ref>
==Partnerships==
Google and [[AOL]] became search partners since 2002. The partnership of the two companies has been reportedly extended until 2015 and their new advertising, content and search, agreement has been expanded which include mobile search and AOL's content will be put on you tube.</ref>[http://paidcontent.org/article/419-aol-google-extend-search-deal-to-2015-add-mobile-youtube/ AOL & Google Partnership]</ref>
In 2002, Google and [[AOL]] inked partnership, the company also launched the '''Google Search Appliance,'''new device that will allow corporations to use its search technology to scan their own networks, <ref>[http://news.cnet.com/Google-aims-search-device-at-companies/2100-1023_3-833905.html CNET]</ref> '''Adwords Select''', an enhanced version of Adwords was released, a self-service advertising system with the Cost-Per Click (CPC)feature, <ref>[http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/select.html Press Release]</ref> the First '''Google API''' which enables developers to query more than 2 billion web documents and programs in their favorite environments, and the '''Google Labs'''.<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-919173.html Google ushers Web surfers into its labs]</ref> The Google News and Froogle was also launched and the company's office in Australia was opened.
In 2007, Google and '''China Mobile''' inked partnership to provide mobile and internet search services in China <ref>[http://www.promotionworld.com/news/press/070104Google.html Promotionworld.com]</ref> as well as with [[Sales Force]] combining the company'son-demand CRM applications with the Google AdWords to provide a more successful integrated sales and marketing for businesses, and <ref>[http://www.salesforce.com/campaigns/google/interviews/ Salesforce.com]</ref> with [[IBM]] on a '''supercomputing (Academic Cluster Computing Initiative)''' to inspire future computer scientists to think big and help them to learn to work at Internet scale on computing challenges.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/timeline/#2007-joint-supercomputing-project-with-ibm Super Computing Project]</ref>
==Community Services==
On August 16, 2006, Google launched the free city wide WiFi in Mountainview, as its way to give back to the community.<ref>[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/free-citywide-wifi-in-mountain-view.html Google Blog]</ref>
In 2008, Google.org announced its five key initiatives, Google Flu Trends, Google Powermeter, RE<C, Google Earth Engine and Google Crisis Response as part of the company's objective to help combat the many challenges in the world using the company's strength in information and technology.<ref>[http://www.google.org/about.html Google.org]</ref>
==Acquisitions==
Google acquired numerous companies since since its establishment to present which include Deja Usenet, Blooger.com, Urchin, Writely, Android, Jotspot, Doubleclick, Aardvark, You Tube, Picnik, Admob, reCaptcha, Slide, ITA Software and many others. <ref>[http://www.crunchbase.com/company/google CrunchBase]</ref>
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