Google Incorporation

Google Incorporation is one company that earns its profit mainly from advertising using their very own Google search engine, Gmail e-mail service, Google Maps, Google Apps, Orkut social networking and Youtube video sharing, which are all offered to the public for free.

It is a public corporation of the Americans and Googleplex, its headquarter is located at Mountain View, California since 2003. This company continues to grow very well and was being ranked number one by Fortune Magazine's as the "Best Place to Work In" for multiple times.

Two Stanford University Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin started a search engine research project called BackRub in January 1996 and was later named Google. Soon in 4th of September 1998, Google was incorporated as a privately held company and later received its first public offering, raising a $1.67 billion on 19th of August 2004 for the company, making it worth a total of $23 billion. Currently the Google company has been listed in the NASDAQ stock markets and London Stock Exchange (LSE) with the ticker symbol of GOOG and GGEA respectively.

The name "Google" was originated from the word "googol" which means 10 raised to the power of hundred or 1 with a hundred of zeroes, and "googol" was often misspelled as "google". Since this term has been increasingly used in our everyday language, "google" was added into the dictionaries, carrying the meaning of "obtaining information using the Internet through Google Search Engine".