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'''Google''' is a multi-national company providing search, advertising, cloud computing services and many other business solutions. The company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html Google Mission]</ref> The company ranked 4th on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2011.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/snapshots/4.html Fortune]</ref> | '''Google''' is a multi-national company providing search, advertising, cloud computing services and many other business solutions. The company's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/index.html Google Mission]</ref> The company ranked 4th on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2011.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/bestcompanies/2011/snapshots/4.html Fortune]</ref> | ||
==Company Background== | ==Company Background== | ||
In 1996, [[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]], both Stanford University graduate students, partnered in building BackRub, a search engine that determined the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> | In 1996, [[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]], both Stanford University graduate students, partnered in building BackRub, a search engine that determined the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> | ||