Google

•Google.

“To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Google is an American public corporation which operates as a search engine and an online advertiser.

The company itself is based in Mountain View, California and has around 13,748 employees.

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University

Google first began as a private limited company September 7th 1998

Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, and it is now worth around $23 billion

Key people in Google

Eric E. Schmidt, CEO/Director
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder, Technology President
Larry E. Page, Co-Founder, Products President
George Reyes, CFO

Partnerships

Google has a partnership with NASA Ames Research Center, Sun Microsystems and Time Warner's AOL.

Also, In 2006, Google and News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media entered into a $900 million agreement to provide search and advertising on the popular social networking site, MySpace.

Images of google’s company situated in mountain view, California. It is known as the googleplex.