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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...

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Awards presented:

Google O'Reilly Open Source Award

Date founded:

Sep 7, 1998

Also known as:

Google, Inc.,
GOOG,
Google Inc,
Google Inc.

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Operating Systems Developed

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Sponsorship

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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Number of employees:

number	date
10,000	2006
12,238	Mar 31, 2007
13,748	Jun 30, 2007
24,400	Jan 8, 2009

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Revenue:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	2.17956E+10	Dec 31, 2008
US$	1.06049E+10
US$	1.06049E+10	Dec 31, 2006

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Operating Income:

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

Net profit:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	4,226,860,000	Dec 31, 2008
US$	3,077,000,000

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Cash:

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

Current Assets:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	2.01782E+10	Dec 31, 2008

Total Assets:

Currency	Amount	Valid Date
US$	3.17676E+10	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$	1.35616E+10	Dec 31, 2008

Competitive space:

Online advertising

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Products:

Consumer product	From date	To date
Google Wave
Google Chrome
Google Buzz	Feb 2010
Google Earth
Google Maps
	Jan 13, 2010	Jul 20, 2010 5:18:11AM UTC
Nexus One	2010	2010
Nexus S	2010

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Internet

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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
Fortune Global 500	423	2009

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Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For of 2009

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Literature Subject

Works Written About This Topic

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Organization

Address

Google Headquarters

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View California 94043

United States of America

Organizations founded:

Open Handset Alliance

Member of:

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

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Geographic scope:

World

Founders:

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Board members:

Person	Title	From	To
Eric E. Schmidt	Chair	Mar 2001
John L. Hennessy		2004
Arthur D. Levinson			Oct 2009
Michael Moritz		May 1999	May 2007
Paul S. Otellini
K. Ram Shriram
Shirley M. Tilghman
Larry Page	Products President
Sergey Brin	Technology President
Rajeev Motwani

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Slogan:

Don't be evil

Previous names:

Backrub

Organizations acquired:

Organization acquired	Date
YouTube	Nov 2006
Jaiku	Oct 9, 2007
FeedBurner	Jun 3, 2007
Postini	2007
GrandCentral	Jul 2007
DoubleClick	Mar 11, 2008
JotSpot	Oct 31, 2006
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.	Jul 16, 2010
AdMob	Nov 2009
ITA Software	Jul 2010

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Leadership:

Person	Role	Title	From
Shona Brown		SVP Business Oper.
Jonathan Rosenberg		SVP Prod. Mgmt.
David C. Drummond		SVP, Corporate Development
Robert Alan Eustace		SVP Engineering & Research
Patrick Pichette		SVP & Chief Financial Officer
Nikesh Arora		Pres, Global Sales & Bus Dev
Eric E. Schmidt	Chief Executive Officer		Aug 2001

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Location

Geolocation:

Latitude	Longitude
37.4222	-122.0844

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Database(s):

Google Scholar

Database(s):

Google Scholar

From the Argument mapping base

Disparagement:

Google Watch

From the Ecology base

Ecosystem members:

Andrew Hogue

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