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Google Profile - What is Google?

By Daniel Nations, About.com

Google Profile:

Website: http://www.google.com

Alexa Ranking: 4 ::(as of 4/9/2008)::

Description: A popular search engine and web portal

Similar Websites: Yahoo, Microsoft Live

What is Google?:

Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, Google began as a research project on building a better algorithm for web search engines by analyzing the relationships between websites. Incorporated in 1998, Google has grown into the most popular search engine on the planet.

Along with the search engine, Google operates applications like GMail and Google Docs and owns web properties such as YouTube.

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