Google search is an important and most popular function of Google, and it is the most used Internet search engine in many countries.
According to the market statistics released by ComScore in June, 2009, 5438+065438+ 10, Google's share in the US search engine market is 65.6%. Google has grabbed billions of Internet pages, and users can easily get the information they want by searching for keywords and other operations.
In 2007, the report that Google is planning to develop its own mobile devices to compete with Apple's iPhone gradually surfaced. It was later confirmed that the project was called Android, not the name of a mobile phone, but the operating system of a mobile device.
Android was acquired by Google in 2005 and developed into an open source project under the license of Apache. At the same time, Google provides developers with software development kits to develop applications running on Android phones, and attracts many mobile phone manufacturers, telecom operators and software developers. In the world, and established the open handset alliance to jointly develop the Android system.
In September 2008, T-Mobile released the first mobile phone G1(customized version of T-Mobile of HTC Dream) running Android system.
201065438+1On October 5th, Google released its own mobile phone called Nexus One. Android was listed as the best-selling smartphone operating system in the fourth quarter of 20 10 in the analysis report of konas company.
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Since 200 1, Google has acquired many enterprises, especially small venture capital companies. On July 13, 2004, Google acquired Picasa, a photo sorting and editing software, and on June 10 of the same year, it annexed Keyhole Company.
The startup has developed a product called Earth Viewer, which allows users to observe the Earth from a 3D perspective. A year later, Google renamed the service Google Earth.
In 2005, Android, a 22-month-old high-tech enterprise, was acquired by Google and became its mobile device operating system. June 5438 +2006 10, Google announced the acquisition of YouTube, an online video sharing website, with a share price of $65,438+65 million, and finally finalized June 5438+065,438 10.
On April 13, 2007, Google reached an agreement with DoubleClick, and DoubleClick was acquired by Google for $3 1 billion, becoming an online publisher and advertiser of the latter. In the same year, Google acquired GrandCentral for $50 million, and later transformed it into Google Voice.
On August 5, 2009, Google acquired video software manufacturing company On2 Technologies for $654.38 million+$006.5 million. In 20 10, Google merged Aardvark into its company with a bid of $50 million, and wrote in its internal blog: "We look forward to integrating it into our products". In the same year, Google acquired ITA software, Slide and Like.com on a large scale.
20 1 1 This year, Google continued to make big acquisitions, which has attracted more than ten European and American enterprises or teams such as SageTV. On 2011August15th, Google officially announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility at a price of $40 per share in cash, totaling about $6,543.8+$0.25 billion.
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