Google?What is it ?

Googleis an American multinational corporationspecializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertisingtechnologies, search, cloud computing, and software. [ 7 ]Most of its profits are derived from AdWords. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Google was founded by Larry Pageand Sergey Brinwhile they were Ph.D.students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offeringfollowed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statementfrom the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," [ 10 ]and its unofficial slogan was " Don't be evil." [ 11 ] [ 12 ]In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitionsand partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity softwareincluding email( Gmail), a cloud storage service( Google Drive), an office suite( Google Docs) and a social networking service( Google+). Desktopproducts include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Androidmobile operating systemand the browser-only Chrome OS [ 13 ]for a netbookknown as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in production of its high-end Nexusdevices and acquired Motorola Mobilityin May 2012. [ 14 ]In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas Cityto facilitate a Google Fiberbroadband service. [ 15