Google Is The Best Search Engine

Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system. The Google headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. , the company has 19,786 full-time employees. The company is running thousands of servers worldwide, which process millions of search requests each day and about 1 petabyte of user-generated data every hour."[http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-08/mf_googlopoly?currentPage=all Why Is Obama's Top Antitrust Cop Gunning for Google?]". Wired Magazine. 20. July, 2009. Retrieved on July 21, 2009.

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising $1.67 billion, implying a value for the entire corporation of $23 billion. Google has continued its growth through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Environmentalism, philanthropy and positive employee relations have been important tenets during the growth of Google. The company has been identified multiple times as Fortune Magazine's #1 Best Place to Work,"100 Best Companies to Work For 2007". Fortune Magazine (link published by CNN). 22 January 2007. Retrieved on January 8, 2007. and as the most powerful brand in the world.BrandZ Top 100 2008 Report (PDF) Alexa ranks Google as the most visited website on the Internet.

Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". Google Corporate Information The unofficial company slogan, coined by former employee and Gmail's first engineerHistory of Gmail at Wikipedia Paul Buchheit, is "Don't be evil".Paul Buchheit on Gmail, AdSense and More Google Blogoscoped[http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/dont-be-evil-trigger-for-ethical.html Don't Be Evil, a Trigger for Ethical Questions] Google Operating System BlogSmall Talk with Mr. Paul Buchheit - Creator of Gmail, Adsense & FriendFeed! CrazyEngineers Criticism of Google includes concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, and censorship.