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Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009 (2009 -03-31)[update], the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running millions of servers worldwide, which process about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour. Google conducts hundreds of millions of search requests every day.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, implying a value for the entire corporation of $23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations have been important tenets during the growth of Google. The company has been identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work, and as the most powerful brand in the world (according to the Millward Brown Group).

Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The unofficial company slogan, coined by former employee and Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit, is "Don't be evil". Criticism of Google includes concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, and censorship.

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A general view of the arrival area of the Whistler Creek Alpine Skiing venue

Google Maps climbs to Olympic peaks

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Google sent snowmobiles rigged with cameras into Canadian mountains so folks snug and warm at home will get views of slopes at the Winter Olympic Games kicking off on Friday.


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Google gives Gmail social-networking 'Buzz' (Update)

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created 23 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Google is giving its free email service a "Buzz" by adding social-networking features which could challenge the supremacy of platforms like Facebook and Twitter.


UB geographers help map devastation in Haiti

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images hosted ...


Online ad improvement seen in IAC's 4Q loss

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created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp lost $1 billion in the fourth quarter because it wrote down the value of its search business, but the results beat expectations and offered the latest indication that the online ...


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Google developing a translator for smartphones

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created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google is developing a translator for its Android smartphones that aims to almost instantly translate from one spoken language to another during phone calls.


Google reduces fee to break Nexus One contract

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created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is shaving $200 off the fee that it charges customers of its new Nexus One phone to break a service contract with T-Mobile, as federal regulators continue to probe such fees and the rationale for them.


Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked (AP)

Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 13

(AP) -- Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former ...


Spain's Telefonica considers charging Google

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created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging Internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use.


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In rare TV advertising foray, Google runs Super Bowl ad

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created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a rare foray into television advertising, Internet giant Google ran an ad during the Super Bowl.


Helping Haitians find family

Helping Haitians find family

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created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Chen Li and his computer science student team created a "People Finder" Web site to help Haitian quake victims reunite with family.


Google appeals French book scan decision: lawyer

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created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google has filed an appeal of a court decision that ordered the US Internet giant to stop digitising French books without publishers' approval, its lawyers said Monday.


A Chinese flag flies over the company logo outside the Google China headquarters in Beijing

Google warns Chinese copycat website: report

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Google has warned a copycat Chinese website to stop using a logo that resembles the US Internet giant's or face possible legal action, state media reported Monday.


Chinese police shut down hacker training business

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created Feb 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyberattack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday.


Google had its favorite designs customized for "a broader audience"

Google-inspired fashion makes debut

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created Feb 06, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Google has gone techno-chic, debuting fashion designs inspired by the Internet giant.


A screen shot of the Google Earth application on the Google Nexus One smartphone

Google Earth dives into oceans and WW II

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created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Google Earth mapping service is letting people use the Internet to dive into the world's oceans or see the ruin that World War II bombings rained on European cities.