Reid Anderson P.1

Background Co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997 Was started as a research project while both were in the Ph.D. program at Stanford Thought ranking sites based on how much they were linked to would give better results More than 31 billion searches are conducted on Google a month

The GooglePlex 2 million square feet worth of office space Includes a gym, 2 swimming pools, sand volleyball courts, free laundry rooms, 11 cafeterias, and a model dinosaur. 2 million square feet worth of office space 8000 of Googles 19000 employees work at the Googleplex

Google Products/Services Youtube Blogger/Blogspot Calender Finance Groups Earth Sky Mars Moon Search Engine Advertising Online E-Mail (GMail) Docs and Spreadsheets Web Browser Desktop Search Picasa Photo Albums Maps Android (Cell Phone Platform)

Advertising Most of their products have links from their homepage If you search something related to one of their products it appears at the top of the list in front of everything else

Stock Price Publically Traded Was first traded on August 19, 2004 Stock price is 449.15

Philanthropy and Charity Google founded their own charity called Google.org 1% of all Google’s earnings is given to the charity The charity supports things ranging from preventing diseases and disasters to researching more efficient hybrids