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Google Google offers its flagship product, the Universal search engine most used the same name. This search was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. in Computer Science from StanfordUniversity) to improve Internet searches. On September 4, 1998, had a server with 80 CPUs, and two HP routers. This search engine beat a more popular time, AltaVista, which was created in 1995.
The companyalso offers other services: a price comparison called Google Product Search, a search engine for material stored on local disks (Google Desktop Search), an email service called Gmail, the globe in 3D(Google Earth) and an instant messaging service called (Google Talk).
Its infrastructure consists of several major data centers that run the Linux operating system distribution, whose election washeld due to the flexibility thereof, so that most workers also use this same distribution on their workstations for convenience.
Currently Google is working on new projects like the $ 100 PC, a newoperating system, collaboration and promotion of open source applications like Firefox, installing several free wireless networks, development of an open protocol for voice communication betweenother . It is also speculated to be working on developing a "Google Office" and a global fiber optic network.
Vint Cerf, considered one of the fathers of the Internet, was hired by Google in 2005.Thecompany trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol GOOG.
In October 2006, Google purchased for U.S. $ 1,650 million the famous YouTube video page.
In April 2007, Google bought DoubleClick, a companyspecializing in Internet advertising by 3100 million. Earlier this month, Google became the world's most valuable brand, reaching the sum of 66,000 million dollars, beating iconic companies like Microsoft,General Electric and Coca-Cola.
In July 2007, Google acquired Panoramio, a website dedicated to exhibit the photographs that users create and position themselves globally, some of which are...
The companyalso offers other services: a price comparison called Google Product Search, a search engine for material stored on local disks (Google Desktop Search), an email service called Gmail, the globe in 3D(Google Earth) and an instant messaging service called (Google Talk).
Its infrastructure consists of several major data centers that run the Linux operating system distribution, whose election washeld due to the flexibility thereof, so that most workers also use this same distribution on their workstations for convenience.
Currently Google is working on new projects like the $ 100 PC, a newoperating system, collaboration and promotion of open source applications like Firefox, installing several free wireless networks, development of an open protocol for voice communication betweenother . It is also speculated to be working on developing a "Google Office" and a global fiber optic network.
Vint Cerf, considered one of the fathers of the Internet, was hired by Google in 2005.Thecompany trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol GOOG.
In October 2006, Google purchased for U.S. $ 1,650 million the famous YouTube video page.
In April 2007, Google bought DoubleClick, a companyspecializing in Internet advertising by 3100 million. Earlier this month, Google became the world's most valuable brand, reaching the sum of 66,000 million dollars, beating iconic companies like Microsoft,General Electric and Coca-Cola.
In July 2007, Google acquired Panoramio, a website dedicated to exhibit the photographs that users create and position themselves globally, some of which are...
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