Google è un motore di ricerca per Internet che non si limita a catalogare il World Wide Web, ma si occupa anche di immagini, foto, newsgroup, notizie, mappe, video, oltre a mantenere una copia cache di tutte le pagine che conosce.
Con un indice che comprende più di otto miliardi di pagine Web, è riconosciuto come il più grande e affidabile tra i motori di ricerca, occupandosi attraverso il suo sito di oltre il 70% di tutte le ricerche effettuate su internet.
L'azienda, che ha il proprio quartier generale a Mountain View in California, the so-called Googleplex, is currently managed by private capital, the largest unit-holders are Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. In October 2003, discussing a possible initial public offering the company was contacted by Microsoft about a possible agreement or a merger, Google refused the offer.
The word "Google" is derived from googol, a term coined by Milton Sirotta (grandson at the time of the American mathematician Edward Kasner minor) in 1938, to refer to the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the word done by Google reflects the willingness of society to organize the immense amount of information available on Web The term is also associated with a pun English goggles, binoculars, just because the engine allows you to "watch closely" the network.
On March 9, 2006, Google bought the company Upstartle Writely word processor used by a browser which allows saving files in formats which are often used products, allowing easy interoperability with a variety of personal productivity software. Finally, 9 October 2006, Google acquired the video portal for amateur YouTube, true mass phenomenon among young people for ease of sharing home videos with about 20 million visitors per month, for the astronomical figure of 1.65 billion dollars.
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