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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 | 900.62 | +14.37 | +1.62% | 2167878 | 26.52 | 33.422 | 298.8B |
Latest Google discussion
Latest Google news
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Nvidia builds huge neural network
The network is 6.5 times bigger than the previous record-setting network developed by Google in 2012. -
Ancient SAP software poisons networks
ERPScan chief technology officer and ZeroNights founder Alexander Polyakov found more than 4,000 servers hosting publicly-facing SAP applications during web searches using Google 700 servers and Shodan 3741 servers. -
Google wants VP9 to be the default
Google has finished defining its VP9 video codec and has started using the next-generation compression technology in Chrome and on YouTube. -
Asus considering wearable devices
Asus is the latest big name to join the wearable tech bandwagon. Google Glass is already generating a lot of buzz and Apple’s rumoured iWatch might be on the way as well. -
ODMs pushing convertible notebooks
Taiwanese ODMs are reportedly persuading brand vendors to sign up for new 2-in-1 convertible designs, which are Microsoft’s and Intel’s latest attempt to halt the Android onslaught. Unlike Ultrabooks, 2-in-1 convertibles should feature sexier form factors and they could go after high-end tablets. -
Iranians get phished before election
Google is warning its Gmail users in Iran that they are being targeted by phishing attacks, which appear to be politically motivated. -
Nokia kills Symbian
Although it has been on life support for a while, the former rubber boot maker Nokia is about to pull the plug on its most successful product in November. -
Big Tech fights off bad PRISM press
Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Facebook have urged the US government to allow them to reveal more details about the security requests they receive for handing over user data under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) -
Apple reportedly considering iPhone phablet
Rumours of a bigger, or cheaper iPhone have been floating around for years, but lately they’ve become too frequent and believable to discount as mere fanboy rambling. They are coming from credible sources, too. -
Android users never sleep
The company tracked roughly 300 million ad impressions hour-by-hour during the first week of May and graphed the results according to which mobile platform the visitor was using -- Google's (GOOG) Android or Apple's (AAPL) iOS. -
Google seals dominance of map market
In a move to provide the US government with up-to-date information of the movement of its citizens under the Prism system, Google has bought Israeli mapping startup Waze on for just over $1 billion. -
Scientists working on smart contact lenses
Although Google Glass has yet to hit retail and flop, scientists are already working on next generation wearable devices and they include smart contact lenses. -
Google's Badnews is not so bad after all
It seems that the world+dog wants to write stories about how bad Google's Android is for malware. -
Apple fanboys will have to praise Microsoft's Bing
Now it seems that Apple has a new sparring partner, Google and it seems that it is time to bury the hatchet with Microsoft. -
Apple lawyer turned patent traitor
Jennifer contacted "troll patent" companies, as she called them, convinced that she and Milekic had an "excellent position against Apple". These patent trollers included Google and Nokia. -
Big IT denies NSA spies on its servers
While President Barack Obama's office defended moves by the NSA to monitor phone calls, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google have denied claims that government spooks have direct access to their servers. -
Intel demos reference Silvermont tablet
An interesting Computex showcase seems to have gone under the radar. Intel showed off a reference Silvermont tablet, built around the new Bay Trail-T platform. -
Tory culture secretary calls for internet giants to censor the web
She has summoned Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and other firms to a Whitehall summit where they will talk about how they are going to censor the internet so it fits with what she wants.
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