Google is a multinational technology company located in the United States. Its business includes Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technology. It develops and provides a large number of Internet-based products and services, develops online software, application software, and also involves mobile The device's Android operating system as well as the operating system Google ChromeOS are developed.
Google search is an important and most popular function of Google. It is the most commonly used Internet search engine in many countries.
According to market statistics released by comScore in November 2009, Google has a market share of 65.6 in the US search engine market. Google crawls billions of Internet web pages, so users can more easily get the information they want by searching for keywords and other operations.
In 2007, reports gradually emerged that Google was planning to develop its own mobile device to compete with Apple's iPhone. It was later confirmed that the project was called Android, which was not the name of the phone, but an operating system for mobile devices.
Android was acquired by Google in 2005 and developed into an open source project under the Apache license. At the same time, Google provides developers with a software development kit to develop applications that run on Android phones, and It has attracted many mobile phone manufacturers, telecom operators, software developers, etc. in the world to form the Open Mobile Phone Alliance to jointly develop the Android system.
In September 2008, T-Mobile released the first mobile phone G1 running Android system (T-Mobile customized version of HTC dream).
On January 5, 2010, Google released its own mobile phone called Nexus One. In the Canalys analysis report for the fourth quarter of 2010, Android was listed as the best-selling smartphone operating system in the world.
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Since 2001, Google has acquired many companies, especially small venture capital companies. On July 13, 2004, Google acquired the photo organizing and editing software Picasa, and in October of the same year it merged with Keyhole.
The startup has developed a product called Earth Viewer that allows users to observe the Earth from a 3D perspective. A year later, Google renamed the service Google Earth.
In 2005, Android, a high-tech company that was only 22 months old, was spotted by Google, acquired and became Google's mobile device operating system. In October 2006, Google announced that it would acquire the online video sharing website YouTube for US$1.65 billion in stock, which was finalized in November.
On April 13, 2007, Google reached an agreement with DoubleClick. DoubleClick was acquired by Google for US$3.1 billion and became an online publishing and advertising agency owned by the latter. In the same year, Google acquired GrandCentral for $50 million and later transformed it into Google Voice.
On August 5, 2009, Google bought out On2 Technologies, a video software manufacturing company, for US$16.5 million. In 2010, Google acquired Aardvark, bidding $50 million, and wrote in an internal blog: "We are looking forward to integrating it into our products." In the same year, Google made major acquisitions of ITA Software, Slide, Like.com, etc.
In 2011, Google continued its large-scale acquisitions and has already recruited more than ten American and European companies or teams, including SageTV.
On August 15, 2011, Google officially announced that it would acquire Motorola Mobility for US$40 per share in cash, for a total of approximately US$12.5 billion.
Reference materials: Baidu Encyclopedia - Google