The Amazing Success Story Of Google - Part 2

Continuing from part 1 in the series.

The current scene:

Google, Inc. is listed on NASDAQ with symbol GOOG. The current share price is $444 as on September 6, 2008. Also on this date the market cap is around $140 Billion. Eric Schmidt is the CEO & Chairman. Larry Page remains co-founder and president, products and Sergey Brin remains co-founder and president, technology. The stock has been a front runner among tech stocks. But they have never given a dividend to shareholders.

Major Acquisitions

- Blogger from Pyra Labs in 2003.
- Picasa in 2004 for Photo management.
- Keyhole in 2004 – Google Earth.
- YouTube in 2006 – Online Videos.
- FeedBurner in 2006 – RSS feeds.
- DoubleClick in 2007 – Online Advertising.

Major Products & Services of google

- Search – text, images, videos, news, books, blogs, patents, code, etc.
- Google Maps & Google Earth.
- Latest news & financial information.
- Google Docs.
- Google Labs.
- Calendar, Groups, Google Scholar, etc.

Other Major Websites run by google

- YouTube.com – Online Video Sharing.
- Orkut.com – Social Networking.
- Picasa.com – Photo Sharing & Management.
- Gmail.com – Email.
- Blogger.com – Blogging.

Some Google Trivia

It was the number one employer according to Fortune magazine in 2007. Google is now a verb in dictionaries. Google.org has committed 1% of its revenues to the betterment of society. They have also started scanning of library books to make data more accessible.

The future for google

They are continuously innovating and launching new products. There has been a constant increase in earnings. The growth of Internet usage boosts revenues further. They are focusing on formation of new partnerships. They have already completed acquisitions of new companies (over 50).

In Conclusion

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. They have stuck to it till now and hope to do so in future.

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