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The Google Empire – Still Owned and Run by Brin & Page – Used by Everyone

Before someone can say ‘Google it’ they could have a list of information miles long- approximately two billion sites for many one word keywords and keyword phrases like chocolate or diet grape drinks. Google has everything that is online and then some. An individual can see a close up of their house or anyone else’s house for that matter, in real time, on Google Earth and Google Maps – talk about giving tools to stalkers. This is the kind of ‘eerie’ control this company has over the planet although millions of people don’t seem to care and can’t live or work with out the colorful search engine that does so much more than search.

Everyday, millions of people all around the world, look up everything from ‘how to safely/humanely rid my backyard of gofers’ to ‘celebrity information on Vincent D’Onofrio’ to ‘how to cook a tuna cheese casserole’ and everything in-between or just plain anything under the sun. Google is the most used search engine on the planet, yet most people don’t have a clue as to where it began, who owns it and what else it can do.

Google – which is a different spelling of the mathematical word googol, meaning 100 zeros after 10 – was born out of a school project for two young Stanford University students in 1996. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both PhD candidates, were assigned to work on the Sanford Digital Library Project which had a goal of ‘developing the enabling technologies for an integrated and single universal digital library.’ The duo went on to create the largest and most popular search engine in the world, Google with each of them having a net worth of over $12 billion as of 2009.

Google owns over 500 domain names, here are just a few of what Google owns. You might be surprised at some of them. – Deja.com; Pyra Labs – for bloggers; Neotonic Software-for CRM; Applied Semantics – for search; Kaltix Corp-for context sensitive search; Genius Labs – for blogging; Ignite Logic-web templates for law firms; Picassa-digi – photo management; keyhole group-digital mapping; Dodgeball – mobile social networking; Where 2 technologies-spreadsheets; ZipDash-maps and traffic for mobile devices; 2Web Technologies-spreadsheets; Urchin-metrics/analytics; Reqwireless Inc. – Java browser; Android-software for mobile phone operating systems; Current Communications Group – broadband Internet connection; @Last Software-SketchUp 3-D modeling; YouTube-online video company; Orion-referral search engine; Feedbumer – RSS feed distribution analytics and management and GrandCentral-mobile voice management. 

Google is so much more than a search engine. There is Google stock; Google maps; Google weather; Google sports scores; Google synonym search; Google unit conversion; Google government; Google currency conversion; Google dictionary; Google calculator; Google housing and real estate; Google public data; Google package tracking; Google travel data/airports; Google area codes; Google movie times; Google patent numbers and Google time.

The latest acquisition for the search engine giant is in competition with the Apple iPhone, the Android which is an operating system that works on any smart phone-cell phone. Right now, Google has entered the hand-held smart phone business and released its answer to the iPhone and that’s the Nexus One powered by Google software. What this means is that anyone can purchase a Nexus One smart phone and take it into any store for any type of cell phone contract.