Type: Public
NASDAQ: GOOG
LSE: GGEA
Founded: Menlo Park, California (September 4, 1998)
Founders: Sergey M. Brin, Lawrence E. Page
Headquarters: Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States
Area served: Worldwide
Key people: Eric E. Schmidt (Chairman) & (CEO), Sergey M. Brin (Technology President), Lawrence E. Page (Products President)
Industry: Internet, Computer software
Revenue: ▲31.3% $ 21.796 billion (2008)
Operating income: ▲30.4% $ 6.632 billion (2008)
Net income: ▲.6% $ 4.227 billion (2008)
Total assets: ▲ $ 31.768 billion (2008)
Total equity: ▲ $ 28.239 billion (2008)
Employees: 19,665 – September 30, 2009
Website Google.com
Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a U.S. public corporation, initially established as a privately held corporation in 1998, which designed and currently manages the Internet Google search engine. Google's corporate headquarters is at the "Googleplex" in Mountain View, California and employs almost 5,000 workers. Dr. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Novell, was named the Chief Executive Officer when co-founder Larry Page stepped down.
The company's stated mission from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Its unofficial slogan, coined by Gmail's first engineer, Paul Buchheit, was Don't be evil. Google has been criticized over issues of privacy of personal information, copyright and alleged censorship.
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