64 Facts About Google LLC

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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that focuses on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics.

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Google LLC went public via an initial public offering in 2004.

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In 2015, Google LLC was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc Google LLC is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's Internet properties and interests.

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Google LLC is the largest search engine, mapping and navigation application, email provider, office suite, video sharing platform, photo and cloud storage provider, mobile operating system, web browser, ML framework, and AI virtual assistant provider in the world as measured by market share.

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Google LLC began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.

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Google LLC received money from two other angel investors in 1998: Amazon.

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The next year, Google LLC began selling advertisements associated with search keywords against Page and Brin's initial opposition toward an advertising-funded search engine.

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Additionally, in 2001 Google LLC's investors felt the need to have a strong internal management, and they agreed to hire Eric Schmidt as the chairman and CEO of Google LLC.

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Google LLC had been trying to find a CEO that Sergey and Larry would accept for several months, but they rejected several candidates because they wanted to retain control over the company.

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In March 2021, Google LLC reportedly paid $20 million for Ubisoft ports on Google LLC Stadia.

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Google LLC spent "tens of millions of dollars" on getting major publishers such as Ubisoft and Take-Two to bring some of their biggest games to Stadia.

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In 2022, Google LLC began accepting requests for the removal of phone numbers, physical addresses and email addresses from its search results.

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In May 2022, Google LLC announced that the company had acquired California based, MicroLED display technology development and manufacturing Start-up Raxium.

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Google LLC launched its Google LLC News service in 2002, an automated service which summarizes news articles from various websites.

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In 2007, Google LLC launched "AdSense for Mobile", taking advantage of the emerging mobile advertising market.

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Google LLC Analytics allows website owners to track where and how people use their website, for example by examining click rates for all the links on a page.

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Google LLC Ads allows advertisers to display their advertisements in the Google LLC content network, through a cost-per-click scheme.

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The sister service, Google LLC AdSense, allows website owners to display these advertisements on their website and earn money every time ads are clicked.

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Google LLC Earth, launched in 2005, allowed users to see high-definition satellite pictures from all over the world for free through a client software downloaded to their computers.

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In January 2010, Google LLC released Nexus One, the first Android phone under its own brand.

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In July 2013, Google LLC introduced the Chromecast dongle, which allows users to stream content from their smartphones to televisions.

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In June 2014, Google LLC announced Google LLC Cardboard, a simple cardboard viewer that lets user place their smartphone in a special front compartment to view virtual reality media.

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Google LLC is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol GGQ1.

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Google LLC generated $50 billion in annual revenue for the first time in 2012, generating $38 billion the previous year.

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Google LLC's consolidated revenue for the third quarter of 2013 was reported in mid-October 2013 as $14.

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In 2020, Google LLC said it had overhauled its controversial global tax structure and consolidated all of its intellectual property holdings back to the US.

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In January 2016, Google LLC reached a settlement with the UK to pay £130m in back taxes plus higher taxes in future.

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In 2013, Google LLC ranked 5th in lobbying spending, up from 213th in 2003.

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Name "Google LLC" originated from a misspelling of "googol", which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros.

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Since 1998, Google LLC has been designing special, temporary alternate logos to place on their homepage intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people.

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The first Google LLC Doodle was in honor of the Burning Man Festival of 1998.

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Subsequent Google LLC Doodles were designed by an outside contractor, until Larry and Sergey asked then-intern Dennis Hwang to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000.

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In 2007, Google LLC announced a free Internet service called TiSP, or Toilet Internet Service Provider, where one obtained a connection by flushing one end of a fiber-optic cable down their toilet.

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Google LLC's services contain easter eggs, such as the Swedish Chef's "Bork bork bork, " Pig Latin, "Hacker" or leetspeak, Elmer Fudd, Pirate, and Klingon as language selections for its search engine.

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Google LLC was nominated in 2010 to be the world's most attractive employer to graduating students in the Universum Communications talent attraction index.

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In 2013, a class action against several Silicon Valley companies, including Google LLC, was filed for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

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Google LLC had previously been accused of surveilling and firing employees who were suspected of organizing a workers union.

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In 2021 court documents revealed that between 2018 and 2020 Google LLC ran an anti-union campaign called Project Vivian to "convince them that unions suck".

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In 2010, Google LLC bought the building housing the headquarter, in a deal that valued the property at around $1.

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In November 2006, Google LLC opened offices on Carnegie Mellon's campus in Pittsburgh, focusing on shopping-related advertisement coding and smartphone applications and programs.

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In May 2015, Google LLC announced its intention to create its own campus in Hyderabad, India.

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Traditionally, Google LLC relied on parallel computing on commodity hardware like mainstream x86 computers to keep costs per query low.

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The second fully Google LLC-owned undersea cable, named Dunant, connects the United States with France and is planned to begin operation in 2020.

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Since 2007, Google LLC has aimed for carbon neutrality in regard to its operations.

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Google LLC said that 25 percent of its energy was supplied by renewable fuels in 2010.

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In 2010, Google LLC Energy made its first investment in a renewable energy project, putting $38.

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In July 2010, Google LLC signed an agreement with an Iowa wind farm to buy 114 megawatts of power for 20 years.

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In September 2020, Google LLC announced it had retroactively offset all of its carbon emissions since the company's foundation in 1998.

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Google LLC donates to politicians who deny climate change, including Jim Inhofe, and sponsors climate change denial political groups including the State Policy Network and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

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Google LLC hired Larry Brilliant as the program's executive director in 2004 and Megan Smith has since replaced him as director.

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In March 2007, in partnership with the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Google LLC hosted the first Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at its headquarters in Mountain View.

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In July 2012, Google LLC launched a "Legalize Love" campaign in support of gay rights.

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In 2008, Google LLC announced its "project 10" which accepted ideas for how to help the community and then allowed Google LLC users to vote on their favorites.

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Google LLC decided to transform its office in Warsaw into a help center for refugees.

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Google LLC has had criticism over issues such as aggressive tax avoidance, search neutrality, copyright, censorship of search results and content, and privacy.

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Google LLC formerly complied with Internet censorship policies of the People's Republic of China, enforced by means of filters colloquially known as "The Great Firewall of China", but no longer does so.

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The abuse of dominant position has been referred to Google LLC's constraint applied to Android device manufacturers and network operators to ensure that traffic on Android devices goes to the Google LLC search engine.

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European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Google LLC had violated EU antitrust rules by "imposing anti-competitive contractual restrictions on third-party websites" that required them to exclude search results from Google LLC's rivals.

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The judgment claimed Google LLC had failed to sufficiently inform users of its methods for collecting data to personalize advertising.

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Google LLC issued a statement saying it was "deeply committed" to transparency and was "studying the decision" before determining its response.

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The lawsuit alleged that Google LLC engaged in anticompetitive behavior by paying Apple between $8 billion-$12 billion to be the default search engine on iPhones.

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In 2017, three women sued Google LLC, accusing the company of violating California's Equal Pay Act by underpaying its female employees.

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Google LLC has worked with the United States Department of Defense on drone software through the 2017 Project Maven that could be used to improve the accuracy of drone strikes.

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Google LLC ultimately decided not to renew this DoD contract, which was set to expire in 2019.

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