Reid Anderson P 1 Background Cofounded by Larry

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Background • Co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997 • Was started as a research project while both were in the Ph. D. program at Stanford • Thought ranking sites based on how much they were linked to would give better results • More than 31 billion searches are conducted on Google a month

The Google. Plex • Includes a gym, 2 swimming pools, sand volleyball courts, free laundry rooms, 11 cafeterias, and a model dinosaur. • 2 million square feet worth of office space • 8000 of Googles 19000 employees work at the Googleplex

Google Products/Services • • • Youtube • Blogger/Blogspot • Calender • Finance • Groups • Earth • Sky • Mars • Moon Search Engine Advertising Online E-Mail (GMail) Docs and Spreadsheets Web Browser Desktop Search Picasa Photo Albums Maps Android (Cell Phone Platform)

Advertising • Most of their products have links from their homepage • If you search something related to one of their products it appears at the top of the list in front of everything else

Stock Price • Publically Traded • Was first traded on August 19, 2004 • Stock price is 449. 15

Philanthropy and Charity • Google founded their own charity called Google. org • 1% of all Google’s earnings is given to the charity • The charity supports things ranging from preventing diseases and disasters to researching more efficient hybrids