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Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world’s information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube, and Google+, the company’s extension into the social space. Most of its Web-based products are free, funded by Google’s highly integrated online advertising platforms AdWords and AdSense. Google promotes the idea that advertising should be highly targeted and relevant to users thus providing them with a rich source of information.
Google has also made strong moves into the web-based apps space with acquisitions of Jotspot (documents), 2Web Technologies (spreadsheets) and Zenter (presentations). The company has also made a splash with the acquisitions of YouTube, DoubleClick and Feedburner.
In 1996, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously started the search company in a Stanford dorm room. The two eventually moved the company to a Menlo Park garage, which the company quickly outgrew. Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim was the company’s first investor with other notable investors including Ron Conway, John Doerr, Mike Moritz and Ram Shriram.

Milestones

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  Google added Chris Wetherell as Senior Software Engineer. (1/1/04)
  Posted 6/19/12 at 10:46am
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  Google added Emre Baran as Sr Product Manager. (3/1/00)
  Posted 6/19/12 at 6:10am
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  Google added Richard Wan as Search Specialist. (7/1/07)
  Posted 6/13/12 at 2:44pm
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  Google added Alex Roetter as Staff Software Engineer. (1/1/02)
  Posted 6/12/12 at 3:18pm
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  Google added Aydin Senkut as Senior Manager, Websearch & Syndication. (6/1/01)
  Posted 6/11/12 at 7:16am
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  Google added Atiq Khan as Online Media Consultant.
  Posted 6/11/12 at 1:52am
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  Google added Matthew Moore as Sales Engineer. (1/1/05)
  Posted 5/23/12 at 3:01pm
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  Google added Snehal Patel as Senior Software Engineer. (7/1/11)
  Posted 5/21/12 at 8:40pm
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  Google added Jamie Divine as Senior Visual Designer. (1/1/07)
  Posted 5/16/12 at 7:01pm
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  Google added Christopher Pedregal as Product Manager.
  Posted 5/15/12 at 5:56pm
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  Google added April Underwood as Senior Partner Technology Manager.
  Posted 5/14/12 at 8:02am
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  Google added Ben Ling as Director/GM of eCommerce (Google Checkout and Product Search).
  Posted 5/12/12 at 8:23am
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  Google added Clement Pang as Staff Software Engineer. (7/1/07)
  Posted 5/7/12 at 5:15pm
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  Google added Chris McKillop as Android@Home. (1/1/12)
  Posted 5/6/12 at 7:10am
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  Google added Nicolas Gunther as AppEngine Consultant.
  Posted 5/3/12 at 7:03am
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  Google added James Kelm as Product Manager. (1/1/06)
  Posted 4/30/12 at 3:48pm                  View the original article here