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Google started out as a search engine, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, that was ridiculed by many because it wasn't the cluttered mess that was Yahoo. Instead it was simple and had a really great algorithm that worked. Now it's a multi-billion dollar company that has its hands in the pockets of governments all over the world, completely dominates search, has its own browser, sprawling headquarters with armed guards, mobile phone platform and profitably advertising product.
It owns YouTube and a bunch of other companies. Its engineers are constantly releasing and working on new, innovative products while the Indiana Jones-villain esque former CEO Eric Schmidt sits back and cackles as every small business in the world must adapt to the whims of change in its algorithms. Google is the primary reason for the dark art of Search Engine Optimisation. In 2010 it was found to be harvesting data from its Street View mapping service which resulted in a lot of furrowed eyebrows, particularly the people who didn't content to having their houses snapped by Googlecars anyway. It blamed the fiasco on a rogue engineer. Google is not very popular in China, but it's working on it.
Latest stock prices
| Symbol | Name | Time | Trade | Change | % Chg | Volume | P/E Ratio | EPS | Mkt Cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOOG | 21:00 GMT | 591.53 | -12.1299 | -2.01% | 3582472 | 18.29 | 32.998 | 192.8B |
Latest Google discussion
Latest Google news
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Samsung's Chromebox goes on sale
It does have a Mac Mini style design and it is supposed to be good if you want to access the Google ecosystem "quicker". But really it is a bit of a yawn. -
School re-instates bullied YouTube teen
A US teenager who was suspended for creating an anti-bullying video and posted it on YouTube has had the suspension lifted. -
Huawei wants EU to intervene in InterDigital patent spat
The commission is also looking into a complaint by Microsoft that Motorola Mobility and its new owner Google charge too much for the use of Motorola's patents. Apple is also joining in. -
IBM bans Siri
It must be fairly bad for IBM to ban the software. IBM doesn't ban Google which has also been involved in similar privacy rows. Since Siri can be used to write e-mails or SMS, Apple could be storing confidential IBM messages. -
Microsoft moans the most about piracy
Figures from Google show that Microsoft is the biggest complainer about copyright theft, a title that many would have expected to have gone to the RIAA. -
Flagship Google tablet tipped for June release
Google's flagship tablet, tipped to be developed with Asustek, is rumoured to arrive as early as July. -
Jury kicks Oracle java case where it hurts
A jury took 30 minutes to work out that Google did not infringe on Oracle's Java patents. -
France tells Google to stop using "Jew" in auto-complete
The country which surrendered to the Nazis, bought us the Dreyfuss Affair, Papus, Frogs' Legs and the Vichy Government, is ordering Google to ban the word Jew from its instant searches. -
Google slams UK porn filtering proposal
Search engine Google has said that government plans to force users to opt-in to access adult content would be "a mistake -
Dell disappoints as PC sales shrink
The tarot readers at Dell have been predicting a miserable second quarter revenue as US and European corporate tech spending weakens and consumer PC sales shrink. -
Anonymous grabs 1.7GB of Department of Justice files
Anonymous has claimed to have grabbed 1.7GB of data from the US Department of Justice, after taking down the Bureau of Justice Statistics website. -
Facebook shares slide further
However, it is the long term where Facebook will suffer. It has to prove that it will be a bigger and stronger company than Apple or Google. To do that the company will have to make more money than it has so far and there are no indications as to how this will happen. -
Europe demands antitrust answers from Google
Monopolist Google has had a good talking to from the European Commission, which declared Google has just weeks to come clean on accusations about abusing its dominance. -
Apple and Samsung in shotgun conciliation
Last year, Oracle's Larry Ellison and Google's Larry Page undertook mediation over Android, but no settlement was reached. -
Nokia heaping piles of cash onto Espoo's biggest bonfire
The cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street are worried that Nokia is burning through its cash faster than an under-the-weather Italian in a shoe shop in the Via Corsa. -
Zuckerberg wins on triumph of hope over reality
CommentIn addition, Facebook's ad business is much less developed, and companies are already starting to notice that it is less effective than Google. -
Oracle being stuffed by Java Judge
After a month of listening to Oracle and Google patronise him about what Java code does, Judge William Alsup has revealed that he has, and still does, write code. -
UK government watches cookie deadline whizz by
"A lot of the questions around cookie compliance are overblown - really we are talking about a very small number of cases around analytics which could be solved quite easily, particularly if they worked with Google to ascertain that data is not being shared across Google's service, which can be done
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