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Google, Yahoo zero in on Internet 'freedom' bill...information, but stopped short of criticizing Beijing for censoring the Internet. Microsoft, like Google, competes directly in the Chinese Internet market. The company began making its revamped search engine, Bing, available there last... In this article: Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Chris Smith, Microsoft Corp., China, and Baidu |
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Independent.co.uk - Gadgets & Tech | October 28, 2009
Chinese paper accuses Google of hampering search
...filtering system to try to block access to material deemed lewd or subversive. In June, Beijing accused Google of allowing access to pornography. That followed an unexplained outage that temporarily blocked users in China from seeing...
In this article: Baidu, China, People's Daily, United States, The Communist Party, Gmail email, and Harvard University
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New Kerala | November 03, 2009
Google admits it scanned books under Chinese copyright protection
Google admits it scanned books under Chinese copyright protection Beijing, Nov 3: Google has admitted to having scanned more than 20,000 books under Chinese copyright protection, a media report said Tuesday. The world's largest internet...
In this article: Google books, China, China Daily, US, and Beijing
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Metro | October 27, 2009
Communist China accuses Google of internet censorship
...the country often find themselves barred from sites including bbc.co.uk and YouTube. In June, Beijing accused Google of allowing access to pornography. That followed an unexplained cut that temporarily blocked users in China from seeing...
In this article: People's Daily, China, US, Allegation, Chinese Communist Party, Gmail email, Baidu Inc., and YouTube
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CNET News.com | November 02, 2009
Speak search terms into Google's app for Nokia
...for instance. Mandarin recognition is currently only available for Nokia phones, but Google says in an official blog post that they're working to expand the capability to other mobile platforms, like Google Android and iPhone. Also, not every...
In this article: Nokia, S60, Iphone, Google Android, Windows Mobile, Nokia S60, CNET, and BlackBerry
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San Jose Mercury News | October 28, 2009
Chinese newspaper accuses Google of hampering searches
Chinese newspaper accuses Google of hampering searches BEIJING - Google faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S. search giant of trying to keep Internet users away...
In this article: People's Daily, The Communist Party, Beijing, U.S., and China
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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. , the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which process millions of search requests each day and about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour.
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. Alexa ranks Google as the most visited website on the Internet.
- Name:
- Google Inc.
- Type:
- Public
- Location City:
- Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Founded:
- Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- GOOG
- Industry:
- Internet, Computer software
- Key People:
- Products:
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- Help
- Google Labs
- See list of Google products
- Google Services & Tools
- Google Web Search Features
- Revenue:
- 31.3% $ 21.796 billion
- Operating Income:
- 30.4% $ 6.632 billion
- Net Income:
- .6% $ 4.227 billion
- Assets:
- $ 31.768 billion
- Equity:
- $ 28.239 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 19,665 –
- Motto:
- Don't be evil
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