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A major technology company investing heavily in data centers and AI infrastructure in the U.S., cited as a key private sector partner.


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Summary

Google LLC is a prominent American multinational technology company, founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. As a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., it stands among the "Big Tech" companies, focusing on a vast array of services including online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, software, and artificial intelligence. Renowned for its market dominance, Google offers widely used products like Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Chrome, YouTube, Android, and Pixel smartphones, alongside ventures in quantum computing and self-driving cars. Despite its global influence and status as one of the world's most valuable brands, Google has faced significant criticism regarding privacy, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, and antitrust issues, notably being involved in ongoing antitrust litigation with the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Extracted Attributes
  • CEO

    Sundar Pichai

  • Name

    Google LLC

  • Type

    American multinational technology company

  • Founded

    1998-09-04

  • Founders

    Larry Page, Sergey Brin

  • Headquarters

    Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States

  • IPO Proceeds

    $1.66 billion

  • Parent Company

    Alphabet Inc.

  • Major Criticisms

    Privacy concerns, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, antitrust issues, abuse of monopoly position

  • Market Dominance

    Largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, online video platform, photo and cloud storage provider, mobile operating system, web browser, machine learning framework, and AI virtual assistant provider by market share

  • Market Valuation

    One of the world's most valuable brands

  • Number of Employees

    182,502

  • Primary Focus Areas

    Online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, artificial intelligence

  • Founder Shareholding

    Larry Page and Sergey Brin own ~14% of publicly listed shares and control 56% of stockholder voting power

  • Key Products and Services

    Google Search, Gmail, Maps, Chrome, YouTube, Android, Pixel smartphones, Google Cloud, Workspace, Drive, Translate, Photos, Meet, Nest, Waymo, Sycamore, Gemini, Google Assistant, TensorFlow, TPU

Timeline
  • Google LLC was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. (Source: User Summary, Wikipedia, Wikidata, DBpedia)

    1998-09-04

  • Google went public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO), raising $1.66 billion. (Source: User Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

    2004

  • Google was added to the S&P 500 Index. (Source: Britannica)

    2006

  • Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (Source: User Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

    2015

  • Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page. (Source: Wikipedia, DBpedia)

    2015-10-24

  • Sundar Pichai also became CEO of Alphabet Inc. (Source: User Summary, Wikipedia, DBpedia)

    2019-12-03

  • Google faces antitrust litigation with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). (Source: User Summary, Related Documents)

    Ongoing

  • XAI's Grok 4 AI model reportedly surpassed competitors like Google. (Source: Related Documents)

    Recent

Google

Google LLC ( , GOO-gəl) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC and is one of the world's most valuable brands. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's internet properties and interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. On December 3, 2019, Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet. After the success of its original service, Google Search (often known simply as "Google"), the company has rapidly grown to offer a multitude of products and services. These products address a wide range of use cases, including email (Gmail), navigation and mapping (Waze, Maps, and Earth), cloud computing (Cloud), web navigation (Chrome), video sharing (YouTube), productivity (Workspace), operating systems (Android and ChromeOS), cloud storage (Drive), language translation (Translate), photo storage (Photos), videotelephony (Meet), smart home (Nest), smartphones (Pixel), wearable technology (Pixel Watch and Fitbit), music streaming (YouTube Music), video on demand (YouTube TV), AI (Google Assistant and Gemini), machine learning APIs (TensorFlow), AI chips (TPU), and more. Many of these products and services are dominant in their respective industries, as is Google Search. Discontinued Google products include gaming (Stadia), Glass, Google+, Reader, Play Music, Nexus, Hangouts, and Inbox by Gmail. Google's other ventures outside of internet services and consumer electronics include quantum computing (Sycamore), self-driving cars (Waymo), smart cities (Sidewalk Labs), and transformer models (Google DeepMind). Google Search and YouTube are the two most-visited websites worldwide, followed by Facebook and Twitter (now known as X). Google is also the largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, online video platform, photo, and cloud storage provider, mobile operating system, web browser, machine learning framework, and AI virtual assistant provider in the world as measured by market share. On the list of most valuable brands, Google is ranked second by Forbes as of January 2022 and fourth by Interbrand as of February 2022. The company has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, antitrust, and abuse of its monopoly position.

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  • Google - Wikipedia

    Google LLC (/ˈ ɡ uː ɡ əl/ⓘ, _GOO-gəl_) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).( It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC( and is one of the world's most valuable brands.( Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies [...] Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's internet properties and interests. [...] After the success of its original service, Google Search (often known simply as "Google"), the company has rapidly grown to offer a multitude of products and services. These products address a wide range of use cases, including email (Gmail), navigation and mapping (Waze, Maps, and Earth), cloud computing (Cloud), web navigation (Chrome), video sharing (YouTube), productivity (Workspace), operating systems (Android "Android (operating system)") and ChromeOS), cloud storage (Drive), language

  • Google | History & Facts; Products & Services | Britannica Money

    Google is an American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Since 2015, Google has been a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet, Inc. More than 70% of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience. It is one of the world’s most prominent brands. Its headquarters are in Mountain View, California. [...] Google began as an online search firm, but it now offers more than 50 Internet services and products, from e-mail and online document creation to software for mobile phones and tablet computers. In addition, its 2012 acquisition of Motorola Mobility put the company in the position to sell hardware in the form of mobile phones. Google’s broad product portfolio and size make it one of the top four influential companies in the high-tech marketplace, along with Apple, IBM, and Microsoft. Despite [...] The company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2004 raised $1.66 billion for the company and made Brin and Page instant billionaires. In fact, the IPO created 7 billionaires and 900 millionaires from the early stockholders. The stock offering also made news because of the unusual way it was handled. Shares were sold in a public auction intended to put the average investor on an equal footing with financial industry professionals. Google was added to the S&P 500 Index) in 2006. By 2012, Google’s

  • List of Google products - Wikipedia

    | Google News | Automated news compilation service and search engine for news in more than 20 languages. | | Google Patents | A search engine to search through millions of patents, each result with its own page, including drawings, claims, and citations. | | Google Scholar | A search engine for the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and scholarly fields. Includes virtually all peer-reviewed journals. | | YouTube | A video hosting website. | [...] | Google Drive | A file hosting service with synchronisation "Synchronization (computer science)") option; tightly integrated with Google Docs Editors. | | Google Forms | A survey software. | | Google Keep | A note-taking service. | | Google Sheets | A spreadsheet editing software. | | Google Slides | A presentation editing software. | | Google Tasks | A task management service. | [...] | Google Groups | An online discussion service that also offers Usenet access. | | Google Meet | A video conferencing platform. | | Google Saved | A collections app. | | Google Sites | A webpage creation and publication tool. | | Google Voice | A VoIP system that provides a phone number that can be forwarded to actual phone lines. | | Productivity tools | | Gmail | An email service. | | Google Account | Controls how a user appears and presents themselves on Google products. |

  • About Google: Our products, technology and company information ...

    - Blog - Brand Resource Center - Careers - Contact us - Help Center - Investor Relations - Locations - Press resources ### Outreach and initiatives - Accessibility - Crisis Response - Google.org - Google Health - Grow with Google - Learning - Public Policy - Sustainability ### Research and technology - Google AI - Google Cloud - Google DeepMind - Google for Developers - Google Labs - Google Research ### More about us

  • Google's products and services - About Google

    Image 15: The letter "G" in green, red, yellow and blue. Image 16: The Google Docs logo, a blue document with three white lines on it. Image 17: The Gemini logo, a blue, four-pointed star that fades to purple at the tips. Image 18: The Google Maps logo, a multicolored pin with a gray circle in the middle. Image 19: The Google Sheets logo, a green spreadsheet with a white grid inside. Image 20: The YouTube logo, a red rectangle with a white play button inside. [...] Image 3: The Chrome logo, a multicolored circle with a blue center that’s outlined in white. Image 4: The letter "G" in green, red, yellow and blue. Image 5: The Google Docs logo, a blue document with three white lines on it. Image 6: The Gemini logo, a blue, four-pointed star that fades to purple at the tips. Image 7: The Google Maps logo, a multicolored pin with a gray circle in the middle. Image 8: The Google Sheets logo, a green spreadsheet with a white grid inside. [...] Image 9: The YouTube logo, a red rectangle with a white play button inside. Image 10: The Google Play logo, a multicolored triangle representing a play button. Image 11: The Gmail logo, a multicolored "M" that resembles an envelope. Image 12: The Google Photos logo, a multicolored pinwheel. Image 13: The Android logo, a green robot’s head with eyes and antennae. Image 14: The Chrome logo, a multicolored circle with a blue center that’s outlined in white.

Google LLC (/ˈɡuːɡəl/) is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the area of artificial intelligence. Its parent company Alphabet is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's Internet properties and interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. On December 3, 2019, Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet. The company has since rapidly grown to offer a multitude of products and services beyond Google Search, many of which hold dominant market positions. These products address a wide range of use cases, including email (Gmail), navigation (Waze & Maps), cloud computing (Cloud), web browsing (Chrome), video sharing (YouTube), productivity (Workspace), operating systems (Android), cloud storage (Drive), language translation (Translate), photo storage (Photos), video calling (Meet), smart home (Nest), smartphones (Pixel), wearable technology (Pixel Watch & Fitbit), music streaming (YouTube Music), video on demand (YouTube TV), artificial intelligence (Google Assistant), machine learning APIs (TensorFlow), AI chips (TPU), and more. Discontinued Google products include gaming (Stadia), Glass, Google+, Reader, Play Music, Nexus, Hangouts, and Inbox by Gmail. Google's other ventures outside of Internet services and consumer electronics include quantum computing (Sycamore), self-driving cars (Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project), smart cities (Sidewalk Labs), and transformer models (Google Brain). Google and YouTube are the two most visited websites worldwide followed by Facebook and Twitter. Google is also the largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, video sharing platform, photo and cloud storage provider, mobile operating system, web browser, ML framework, and AI virtual assistant provider in the world as measured by market share. On the list of most valuable brands, Google is ranked second by Forbes and fourth by Interbrand. It has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, , censorship, search neutrality, antitrust and abuse of its monopoly position.

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