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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. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook.

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), 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 (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station).

Google.com is the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google was the most valuable brand in the world as of 2017, but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality. Google’s mission statement is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. The company’s unofficial slogan “Don’t be evil” was removed from the company’s code of conduct around May 2018, but reinstated by July 31, 2018.

关于谷歌Google

谷歌公司（Google Inc.）成立于1998年9月4日，由拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布林共同创建，被公认为全球最大的搜索引擎公司。

谷歌是一家位于美国的跨国科技企业，业务包括互联网搜索、云计算、广告技术等，同时开发并提供大量基于互联网的产品与服务，其主要利润来自于AdWords等广告服务。

1999年下半年，谷歌网站“Google”正式启用。 2010年3月23日，宣布关闭在中国大陆市场搜索服务。2015年8月10日，宣布对企业架构进行调整，并创办了一家名为Alphabet的“伞形公司”（Umbrella Company），成为Alphabet旗下子公司。2015年，在2015年度“世界品牌500强”排行中重返榜首，苹果和亚马逊分别位居第二和第三名。2016年6月8日，《2016年BrandZ全球最具价值品牌百强榜》公布，以2291.98亿美元的品牌价值重新超越苹果成为百强第一。 2017年2月，Brand Finance发布2017年度全球500强品牌榜单，排名第一。2017年6月，《2017年BrandZ最具价值全球品牌100强》公布，谷歌公司名列第一位。

2017年12月13日，谷歌正式宣布谷歌AI中国中心（Google AI China Center）在北京成立。

2018年1月，腾讯和谷歌宣布双方签署一份覆盖多项产品和技术的专利交叉授权许可协议。2018年5月29日，《2018年BrandZ全球最具价值品牌100强》发布，谷歌公司名列第一位。12月18日，世界品牌实验室编制的《2018世界品牌500强》揭晓，Google排名第2位。