Google | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-20

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google


00:03:45 1 History
00:05:17 1.1 Financing (1998) and initial public offering (2004)
00:09:14 1.2 Growth
00:12:55 1.3 2013 onward
00:17:03 1.4 Acquisitions and partnerships
00:17:12 1.4.1 2000–2009
00:19:49 1.4.2 2010–present
00:26:17 1.5 Google data centers
00:28:43 1.6 Alphabet
00:29:34 2 Products and services
00:29:43 2.1 Advertising
00:32:49 2.2 Search engine
00:35:49 2.3 Enterprise services
00:37:42 2.3.1 Business incubator
00:38:15 2.4 Consumer services
00:38:24 2.4.1 Web-based services
00:39:02 2.4.2 Software
00:39:26 2.4.3 Hardware
00:41:19 2.5 Internet services
00:43:08 2.6 Other products
00:45:38 2.7 APIs
00:46:10 2.8 Other websites
00:46:54 3 Corporate affairs and culture
00:47:29 3.1 Innovation Time Off policy
00:47:40 3.2 iThe New York Times/i iexposé/i (2018)
00:48:15 3.3 Employees
00:48:26 3.4 Office locations and headquarters
00:49:02 3.4.1 Mountain View
00:49:13 3.4.2 New York City
00:49:44 3.4.3 Other U.S. cities
00:52:33 3.4.4 International locations
00:52:43 3.5 Doodles
00:54:01 3.6 Easter eggs and April Fools' Day jokes
00:55:36 3.7 Philanthropy
00:57:18 3.8 Tax avoidance
00:58:26 3.9 Environment
00:59:14 3.10 Lobbying
01:01:39 3.11 Litigation
01:03:16 4 Criticism and controversy
01:04:37 4.1 Legal controversies
01:06:53 5 See also
01:07:15 6 References
01:08:25 7 Further reading
01:13:34 8 External links



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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of Alphabet.
The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail/Inbox), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), social networking (Google+), instant messaging and video chat (Google Allo, Duo, Hangouts), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Keep), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos). The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier. In February 2010, it announced Google Fiber, a fiber-optic infrastructure that was installed in Kansas City; in April 2015, it launched Project Fi in the United States, combining Wi-Fi and cellular networks from different providers; and  ...