Google
Inc. is a dreams came reality if you ask from me. Here's some
basics of Google. Google's mission is to organize the world's
information and make it universally accessible and useful.
As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google's
founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new
approach to online search that took root in a Stanford
University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers
around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world's
largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that
usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.
When you visit www.google.com or one of the dozens of other
Google domains, you'll be able to find information in many
different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news
headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the
United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's
largest archive of Usenet messages -- more than 1 billion posts
dating back to 1981.
We also provide ways to
access all this information without making a special trip to the
Google homepage. The Google Toolbar enables you to conduct a
Google search from anywhere on the web. And for those times when
you're away from your PC altogether, Google can be used from a
number of wireless platforms including WAP and i-mode phones.
Google's utility and ease of use have made it one of the world's
best known brands almost entirely through word of mouth from
satisfied users. As a business, Google generates revenue by
providing advertisers with the opportunity to deliver
measurable, cost-effective online advertising that is relevant
to the information displayed on any given page. This makes the
advertising useful to you as well as to the advertiser placing
it. We believe you should know when someone has paid to put a
message in front of you, so we always distinguish ads from the
search results or other content on a page. We don't sell
placement in the search results themselves, or allow people to
pay for a higher ranking there.
Thousands of
advertisers use our Google AdWords program to promote their
products and services on the web with targeted advertising, and
we believe AdWords is the largest program of its kind. In
addition, thousands of web site managers take advantage of our
Google AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to the content on
their sites, improving their ability to generate revenue and
enhancing the experience for their users.
To
learn more about Google, click on the link at the left for the
area that most interests you. Or type what you want to find into
our search box and hit enter. Once you do, you'll be on your way
to understanding why others say, "Google is the closest thing
the Web has to an ultimate answer machine."
What's a Google?
"Googol" is the mathematical
term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The term was coined by
Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner,
and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the
Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the
term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense
amount of information available on the web.
