What is Google?

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is an American listed company (public joint-stock company). It was founded as a private joint-stock company on September 7, 1998 to design and manage An Internet search engine; Google is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with sales and engineering offices around the world. The Google website was launched in the second half of 1999; on August 19, 2004, Google's shares were listed on Nasdaq and became a public joint-stock company. Google's headquarters is called the "Googleplex" and is located in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, USA. After Google founder Larry Page retired, Dr. Eric E. Schmidt, the former CEO of Novell, became the CEO of Google.

The first step in the establishment of Google began when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin jointly developed a new online search engine in the student dormitory of Stanford University, and then quickly spread to global information search. who. Google is currently recognized as the world's largest search engine. It provides simple and easy-to-use free services, and users can get relevant search results in an instant. When you visit www.google.com or one of the many Google domains, you can find information in multiple languages, view stock prices, maps and news, find phone book listings for all cities in the United States, search billions of images and detail Read the world's largest archive of Usenet messages - over a billion posts, dating back to 1981. Users don't have to go to the Google homepage to access all this information.

On April 12, 2006, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced in Beijing that the company's global Chinese name would be "Google" (some reports pointed out that it means "harvest song", However, there are also reports that the meaning is "Song of the Valley"). At the same time, Google's branch registered in Taiwan on February 15, 2006 was named "American Business Kego International Co., Ltd." Previously, in an award from the Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, the company was called "Kegao Company". The company also owns Chinese domain names such as "Google.cn", "Google.China", and "GuGuo.com" (but does not own "GuGuo.China" and "GuGuo.Company"). Although Chinese users more often call Google "Gugou" or "Dog" in addition to its English name, its Chinese domain names "Gugou.com", "Gugou.cn", "Gugou.China", etc. Registered by other companies. In addition, Google's branch in Beijing once used "Gu Guo" as the Chinese translation for contract signing and online recruitment. At about 1:00 a.m. on April 17, 2006, Beijing time (UTC+8), the word "Google" officially appeared on Google's simplified Chinese website (other regions still only display "Google"). Google China's explanation of "Google" is "a song of sowing and expectation, as well as a song of harvest and joy", and said that the name was voted by all employees of Google China. Soon after the release of "Google", it was criticized by many users. Subsequently, some Chinese users launched an online signature campaign against "Google". However, Google China insisted on using "Google" as its official name, but in practice there are still "Google", The phenomenon of "Google China" being used interchangeably.