Introduction
The company is based in, Mountain View, California and has 13,748 full-time employees
as of june 30 2007. Google's
mission statement is, "to organize the world's information and make it
universally accessible and useful.Google's corporate
philosophy includes statements such as "Don't be evil", and
"Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun",
illustrating a somewhat relaxed corporate culture. Google was co-founded by Larry Page
and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first
incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998.
Just a few
years back, the word Google existed as the name of a cartoon character (Barney
Google) and possibly among the random phonemes mumbled by toddlers. Today, one
would be hard-pressed to find a person who hasn't heard of the search engine
that bears this name. The word Google is an alternative on the
Googol, a term coined by the 9-year-old nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.Â
