Table of Contents What Is Google 4 A Team Effort 6 More Than a Search Engine 10 Branching Out 14 A Great Place to Work 16 Google Gives Back 18 Google Timeline 20 Glossary 22 To Learn More 23 Index 24
A student is typing a report about the planet Saturn Google will help She goes to Google’s home page and enters Saturn in the search bar In an instant Google offers a list of results from the web The student learns that Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system Google makes finding this information easy Today Google Inc also called Google is a technology leader Its headquarters is in Mountain View California In addition to its search engine Google provides many other services and products These include Gmail a popular email service and Android a mobile operating system Another favorite product is a web browser called Google Chrome For directions many people rely on Google Maps Companies also use Google to advertise products In 2015 Google was worth more than 360 billion This makes it one of the most valuable brands on Earth 4 What Is Google
By the Numbers worth more than 360 billion in 2015 more than 1 billion YouTube users more than 150 languages used for Google searches more than 53,000 employees around 900 million Gmail users more than 3 billion Google searches each day Google headquarters 5
