Google

Daniela CosmaiCS110-3Professor Scaramastra12/11/2014

Index

1. Incorporation2. Goals3. Search Services4. Advertising5. Operating Systems and Plat

forms6. Hardware Products

Incorporation

Google is a global technology company. It was founded on September 4, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, financed by the engineer Andy Bechtolsheim.

At first the search engine they had created was called BackRub, the name was then changed into “Google” with reference to the word “googol” (1 followed by a 100 zeros).

“[Their] mission [was] to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Goals

key areas

SearchYou tube, Google Maps

Advertising Adsense program, Adwords

Goals:

Operating systems and platformsAndroid, Chrome, Google+Google Play, Google Drive

Hardware productsNexus 5 (smartphone),Google GlassExplorer Edition

Search Services

Google Searchgoogle.com

Google Search, commonly referred to as Google Web Search or just Google, is a web search engine owned by Google Inc. It is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, handling more than three billion searches each day.Google Mapsgooglemaps.com

Google Maps is a desktop and mobile web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, offering satellite imagery, street maps, and Street View perspectives, as well as functions such as a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bicycle (beta test), or with public transportation.

YouTubeyoutube.com

You Tube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and has been owned by Google since late 2006.

Advertising

Google Data

AdWordsadwords.com

Google AdWords is an online advertising service that places advertising copy at the top, bottom, or beside, the list of search results Google displays for a particular search query. The choice and placement of the ads is based in part on a proprietary determination of the relevance of the search query to the advertising copy. AdWords has evolved into Google's main source of revenue.

AdSenseadsense.com

AdSense is a free, simple way to earn money by displaying targeted ads next to your online content. With AdSense, you can show relevant and engaging ads to your site visitors and even customize the look and feel of ads to match your website.

Operating System and Platforms

Android-In Depth

Android android.com

Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by Google. Android is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized user interfaces for televisions (Android TV), cars (Android Auto), and wrist watches (Android Wear).

Chromechrome.com

Google Chrome browser is an open source program for accessing the World Wide Web and running Web-based applications, available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS operating systems. Google released Chrome in 2008 and issues several updates a year.

Google Drivegoogledrive.com

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google, released on April 24, 2012, which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing.

Hardware and Products

Focus on Google Glasses

Google Glassgoogleglass.com

Google Glass is a type of wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD). Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format. Wearers communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands.Chromebookchromebook.com

A Chromebook is a laptop running Chrome OS as its operating system. The devices are designed to be used primarily while connected to the Internet, with most applications and data residing "in the cloud". A Chromebook is an example of a thin client.

Nexus 10nexus10.com

Nexus 10 is a tablet computer co-developed by Google and Samsung Electronics that runs the Android operating system. It is the second tablet in the Google Nexus series, a family of Android consumer devices marketed by Google and built by an original equipment manufacturer partner.