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Google (GOOG) is one of the largest American multinational technology companies providing users with Internet-related services and products. Google Incorporated is the third largest company, in terms of  market capitalization , in the United States; its market cap is $373.79 billion, only being edged out by Microsoft Corporation and Apple Incorporated. Although Google is one of the most well-known companies throughout the world, there are a plethora of facts that many do not know about Google. Before Google became a powerhouse search engine, it was known as BackRub. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, met at Stanford University in 1995. The next year, Page and Brin collaborated on a new project, a powerful search engine called BackRub, which operated on Stanford University's servers. Google.com registered as a domain on Sept. 15, 1997. The name is a play on "googol," which is a term for a very large number, a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflect...

Google once more became the most valuable public company in the world when its parent Alphabet Inc. (NASQAQ:  GOOGL ) reached a market cap of $547.1 billion, which is higher than that of Apple at $529.3 billion. The last time Google was more valuable than Apple was about six years ago. Unlike Apple's reliance on the iPhone to drive revenue, Google has multiple streams of income. Many of Google's revenue sources have experienced tremendous growth over the years. Google AdWords and Search Advertising The company's proprietary advertising service, Google AdWords, continues to be a major contributor to Google's revenue at 68%, or $45 billion in 2014. In 2015, Google's aggregate paid clicks, a key advertising measure, rose 31% from the previous year,  beating the consensus expectation  of a 22% rise. Across all industries, companies continue to drive up the  cost per click  (CPC). In 2011, the insurance industry commanded 24% of Google AdWords revenue, ...

Since its debut in 1996, Alphabet Inc. commonly known as Google, has transformed itself from a simple search engine provider to a global advertising, cloud and software business. As of Aug. 26, 2016, the company was the second largest in the world by  market capitalization  behind Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:  AAPL ). Google has enjoyed a great deal of success thanks to websites such as YouTube, and products, such as Google Docs, Google AdWords and the Google Chrome operating system. Not every product, however, has been a hit. Some failures were quietly merged into newer products, while others were discontinued altogether. Some products were unsuccessful because they failed to replace or improve upon an already existing popular product, or simply failed due to faulty execution. Google is one of the most successful technology companies around, but these products didn't do much to help its reputation. Google Answers Google Answers was developed as a tool for individua...

Microsoft’s (MSFT ) drive to close in on Amazon’s ( AMZN ) dominance of the lucrative  cloud hosting  market continues to gain momentum. The Redmond-based tech giant confirmed that it paid an undisclosed amount to  acquire  San Francisco software  startup  Deis, meaning that Microsoft’s Azure cloud service will now be equipped with increasingly popular container technologies. Deis’ open source tool uses Kubernetes, a sophisticated software that enables developers to build codes in a virtual box that can easily be shared and moved between applications and across clouds. The technology, which was originally developed by Google ( GOOG ), is popular with businesses because it allows them to automate the deployment, scaling and management of applications better than ever before. “Deis gives developers the means to vastly improve application agility, efficiency and reliability through their Kubernetes container management technologies,” Scott ...