Google: Facts and figures
Google Inc., one of the most successful companies today, was founded in 1998 by Larry page and Sergey Brin. The success story reads like a picture book. 8 Google employees worked in 1999, today there are more than 10,000.
Already in 2000, the Google search engine was market leader with over 1 billion pages in the index. In 2007, Google is the number 1 of search engines and first choice for Internet research, but the most visited site on the Internet. Even Microsoft, eBay, and Wikipedia can long no longer compete. Over 80 percent of Germans regularly use Google.
2004 the company was the step on the stock exchange. The issue price was at 80 to 85 USD. Already the first trading day was a success, the price increased to over $ 100. In November 2005, the Google share exceeded 400 dollar limit and in November 2006 the 500 dollar brand. On the 18. March 2007 the Google was worth approximately 330 euros or $ 456 share.
The company Google was to find the first time on the Forbes to place 38 list in 2005. Already at that time, the company with an estimated $ 55 billion goodwill was assessed. The company founders Larry page and Sergey Brin lie on the Forbes list 2007 ‘ top 100 of the Milliardäre world’s ´ to rank 26. Noted two 33 and 34 years are the latest representatives of the top 100 list. His 34 years with its $ 16.6 billion it creates Larry page to place 6 of the Forbes list ‘ the recent Milliardäre ´. Sergey Brin lands equal ability, but thanks to his age on fourth place.
in 2005, Google was the most influential brand. 2007, Google is the most valuable brand in the world and proposes famous competitors such as General Electric, and Microsoft.
Google collects and stores information. Experts speak on the data that is stored on the computers of the company, the largest collection private data worldwide. According to Google billion Web pages and images more than 1 billion available for searches 8-10.
The term Google long not only represents a search engine. Google offers many more services, such as Google Desktop, Google Earth, Froogle, Google talk and Google News. Some offers by Google are only restricted in Germany or not (yet) available to Google books or Google video. These are available only in the USA.
One of the many other services is Google trends. As a chart, it shows how often certain terms searching. Regions, cities, and languages in which the respective keyword is most popular queried are here too. The top 3 regions of the word ‘ summer are ´ example, Austria, Germany and Denmark, the top 3 cities are Erfurt, Darmstadt and Arhus…
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