What is "google"

Google is a multinational online services and software company in the United States. Google hosts and develops a number of internet-based services and products and generates profit primarily through advertising through Adwords.

The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often nicknamed "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as Phd students.

It was founded as a private company on 4 September 1998 and its initial public offering was held on 19 August 2004. The company’s stated mission from the start was to "organize world information and make it universally accessible and useful" and its slogan, which was invented by engineer Paul Buchheit, is "Don’t be evil" in English and "Don’t be bad" in Portuguese.

In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California. Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world and processes over one billion search requests and twenty petabytes of user-generated data every day.

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