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| Type | Public NASDAQ: GOOG LSE: GGEA |
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| Founded | Menlo Park, California |
| Founder | Sergey M. Brin Lawrence E. Page |
| Headquarters |  Googleplex, Mountain View, California, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Eric E. Schmidt & Sergey M. Brin Lawrence E. Page |
| Industry | Internet, Computer software |
| Products | See list of Google products |
| Revenue | ▲31.3% $ 21.796 billion |
| Operating income | ▲30.4% $ 6.632 billion |
| Net income | ▲.6% $ 4.227 billion |
| Total assets | ▲ $ 31.768 billion |
| Total equity | ▲ $ 28.239 billion |
| Employees | 19,786 - June 2009 |
| Website | Google.com |
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, and as the most powerful brand in the world .
Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The unofficial company slogan, coined by former employee and Gmail's first engineer Paul Buchheit, is "Don't be evil". Criticism of Google includes concerns regarding the privacy of personal information, copyright, and censorship.
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