Google:Past,Present & Future

In present time 'Google' is one of the most common words we encounter in our daily life.This word has influenced our way of thinking,our life style and point of view in a permanent manner.Now we can just google anything :)
In this post I'm updating you with some facts behind this phenomenon.What is Google? Who founded it? and when? where?
'GOOGLE' word is a modified form of word 'GOOGOL'which stands for hundered zeroes after 1.
Google.Inc is an american multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies.
Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits.
The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996 while both attended Stanford University. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake.
Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.
The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"
The company's unofficial slogan is "Don't be evil".
In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the Google Chrome OS browser found on specialized netbooks called Chromebooks.
Google has also become a hardware company with its cooperation with major electronics manufacturers on its high-end Nexus series of devices and its acquisition of Motorola Mobility .
Google has also undertaken the construction of fiber-optic infrastructure in Kansas City as part of the Google Fiber broadband Internet service project.
Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world,and process over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day.
As of October 2012 Alexa listed the main U.S.-focused google.com site as the Internet's second most visited website, and numerous international Google sites as being in the top hundred, as well as several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger.
Google ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database.
The number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 1 billion for the first time in May 2012.