Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American multinational Internet and software corporation specialized in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. It hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", and the company's unofficial slogan – coined by Google engineer Amit Patel and supported by Paul Buchheit – is "Don't be evil". In 2006, the company...

Awards presented: Google O'Reilly Open Source Award  
Appears in ranked lists: Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For - 4 - 2009; Fortune 1000 - 117 - 2009; Fortune 1000 - 150 - 2008; Fortune 1000 - 353 - 2006; Fortune Global 500 - 423 - 2009; 
Works Written About This Topic: Google Hacks  What Would Google Do?  In the Plex  I'm Feeling Lucky  Is search passé?  
Total Assets: US$ - 3.17676E+10 - Dec 31, 2008; 
Cash: US$ - 8,656,670,000 - Dec 31, 2008; 
Competitive space: Online advertising; 
Current Assets: US$ - 2.01782E+10 - Dec 31, 2008; 
Current Liabilities: US$ - 2,302,090,000 - Dec 31, 2008; 
Industry: Geographic Information System  Search engine  Search Engine Marketing  Search  Computer software  Advertising  Information technology  Technology  Internet Publishing and Broadcasting and Web Search Portals  
Total Liabilities: US$ - 3,528,710,000 - Dec 31, 2008; 
Net profit: US$ - 4,226,860,000 - Dec 31, 2008; US$ - 3,077,000,000; 
Operating Income: US$ - 4,121,900,000 - Dec 31, 2006; 
Retained Earnings: US$ - 1.35616E+10 - Dec 31, 2008; 
Revenue: US$ - 2.17956E+10 - Dec 31, 2008; US$ - 1.06049E+10; US$ - 1.06049E+10 - Dec 31, 2006; 
Products: Google Wave; Google Chrome; Google Buzz - Feb 2010; Google Earth; Google Maps; Nexus One - 2010 - 2010; Nexus S - 2010; 
Employees and other personnel: Salar Kamangar - Vice President of Product Management; David lawee - Vice President of Marketing; Marissa Mayer - Vice President, Search Products & User Experience; Mario Queiroz - Vice President, Product Management, EMEA & Latin America; Lorraine Twohill - Vice President, Marketing, EMEA; Susan Wojcicki - Vice President of Product Management; Daniel Alegre - Vice President, Latin America and APLA Business Development; Tim Armstrong - President, Advertising and Commerce, North America, & Vice President, Google Inc. - Mar 2009; Nikesh Arora - President, EMEA Operations & Vice President, Google Inc.; Sukhinder Singh Cassidy - Vice President, Asia-Pacific & Latin America Operations; 
Number of employees: 10,000 - 2006; 12,238 - Mar 31, 2007; 13,748 - Jun 30, 2007; 24,400 - Jan 8, 2009; 
Issue: GOOGLE INC-CL A Common Stock  GOOGLE INC-CL A Common Stock  GOOGLE INC-CL A Common Stock  GOOGLE INC-CL A Common Stock  GOOGLE INC-CL A Common Stock  GOOGLE INC-CL A Common Stock  
Sponsorship: OSCON 2009; Google Summer of Code; 
Operating Systems Developed: Google Chrome OS  Honeycomb  Ice Cream Sandwich  
Programming Languages Developed: Go  
Software: Google Maps API  BigTable  KHTML  Froogle  Picasa  Google Earth  Google Analytics  Google Page Creator  Google Finance  Google Notebook  
Conferences: FOSDEM  PyCon  GOTO  
Websites Owned: iGoogle  Orkut  Blogger  Picasa  Gmail  Google search  Google Trends  Google Image Labeler  Google Calendar  Google Reader  
Board members: Larry Page - CEO; Eric E. Schmidt - Chairman - Mar 2001; Sergey Brin; John Doerr; John L. Hennessy - 2004; Ann Mather; Paul S. Otellini; K. Ram Shriram; Shirley M. Tilghman; 
Child: Endoxon; Postini UK Ltd; Google Company - Google OOO; MessageMedia GmbH; PiFidelity Holding Corp; Applied Semantics; Scott Concepts, LLC; Google Bermuda Unlimited; DoubleClick International Advertising Ltd; Google Czech Republic s.r.o.; 
Organizations acquired: YouTube - Nov 2006; FeedBurner - Jun 3, 2007; Postini - 2007; GrandCentral - Jul 2007; DoubleClick - Mar 11, 2008; JotSpot - Oct 31, 2006; Metaweb Technologies, Inc. - Jul 16, 2010; AdMob - Nov 2009; ITA Software - Jul 2010; Keyhole, Inc - 2004; 
Date founded: Sep 7, 1998; 
Founders: Sergey Brin  Larry Page  
Geographic scope: World  
Headquarters: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, United States of America 94043; 
Leadership: Larry Page - Chief Executive Officer - Apr 4, 2011; Eric E. Schmidt - Executive Chairman; Sergey Brin - Co-Founder; David C. Drummond - Senior Vice President - Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer; Patrick Pichette - Senior Vice President - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Nikesh Arora - Senior Vice President - Senior Vice President and Chief Business Officer; 
Legal structure: Publicly listed company  Corporation  
Place founded: Menlo Park  Stanford University  
Previous names: Backrub; 
Slogan: Don't be evil; 
Organizations founded: Open Handset Alliance  
Member of: Open Handset Alliance - Nov 5, 2007; Interactive Advertising Bureau; Network Advertising Initiative; 
Projects: Michigan digitization project; 
Venture Investors: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers; Sequoia Capital; 
Venture Investments: Meraki Networks; 23andMe; FON; 
Related Web Pages: http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001288776&owner=include  Twitter Page  Daylife Topic Page  Croctail Corpwatch Template  Google Videos  Google+  Ranker Lists  New York Times  Google.com  

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