Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
What other internet sites do they own?
What is its
revenue?
Annual revenue: US$ 37.905 billion (2011)
What is its
overall worth?
Worth $200 Billion
Five key facts
about the institution
620 million visitors visit Google.com
daily.
97% of Google Revenue comes from their
advertising services.
Google started in January, 1996 as a
research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and
Sergey Brin
Google is the most popular site in the US,
Iran and South Korea,
Around a third (31.1pc) of Google’s traffic comes from the US, with 8.1pccoming from India
and 3pc from
the UK
Three quotes about the institution
If it isn't on Google, it
doesn't exist.
We want Google to be the third
half of your brain.
Half of Google's revenue comes
from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related
to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing
its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
Company’s corporate homepage
“Google’s mission
is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and
useful”.
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met
at Stanford University in 1995. By 1996, they had built a search engine
(initially called BackRub) that used links to determine the importance of
individual webpages.
Our company has packed a lot into a
relatively young life. Since Google was founded in 1998, we’ve grown to serve
hundreds of thousands of users and customers around the world.
Google facts
·
Founded
1998
·
Founders
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
·
Incorporation
September 4, 1998
·
Initial
public offering (NASDAQ)
August 19, 2004
·
Headquarters
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
CA 94043
Wikipedia:
History -> Google began in January 1996, as a research project by
Larry Page and Sergey Brin -> Both went to Stanford University,
Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", eventually,
they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", The domain
name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997.
Advertising -> In 2011, 96% of Google's revenue was derived from
its advertising programs. Google
advertisements can be placed on third-party websites in a two-part program.
The sister service, Google AdSense,
allows website owners to display these advertisements on their website, and
earn money every time ads are clicked. In an attempt to advertise its own products,
Google launched a website called Demo Slam, Demo Slam is "a place where creative and tech-savvy people can
create videos to help the rest of the world understand all the newest and
greatest technology out there.
Google Infographic
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