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{{CompanyInfo|

| logo            = Googlelogo.png

| logo            = GoogleLogoNew.png

|goldsponsor   = [[Sponsorship|ICANNWiki Gold Sponsor]]

|partnersponsor   = [[Sponsorship|ICANNWiki Partner]]

| type            = Publicly Held

| type            = Publicly Held

| industry        = Internet & Technology

| industry        = Internet & Technology

[[Jordyn Buchanan]], Site Reliability Manager<br>

[[Jordyn Buchanan]], Site Reliability Manager<br>

[[Sarah Falvey]], Policy Manager<br>

[[Sarah Falvey]], Policy Manager<br>

Nikesh Arora, Senior VP and Chief Business Officer <br>

Nikesh Arora, Senior VP and Chief Business Officer <br>

Shona L. Brown, Senior VP Business Operations <br>

Shona L. Brown, Senior VP Business Operations <br>

'''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>

Google's application for the [[.search]] new gTLD includes a proposal for a "dotless" TLD, which has been with significant objection from [[Microsoft]] and other companies.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/13376-microsoft-objects-to-googles-dotless-domains-plan Microsoft Objects to Google's Dotless domains plan, Domain Incite] Retrieved 20 Sept 2013</ref> An excerpt from Google's application explains the proposal:

Google's application for the [[.search]] new gTLD includes a proposal for a "dotless" TLD, which has been with significant objection from [[Microsoft]] and other companies.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/13376-microsoft-objects-to-googles-dotless-domains-plan Microsoft Objects to Google's Dotless domains plan, Domain Incite] Retrieved 20 Sept 2013</ref> An excerpt from Google's application explains the proposal:

"Charleston Road Registry will provide a service on the dotless search domain that will allow users to designate the search functionality of their choice and then perform queries that will automatically be redirected to the appropriate website.  This facility should provide simple, consistent access to the userʹs preferred search functionality that does not exist today."<ref>[https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1319 Application details, ICANN.org] Retrieved 20 Sept 2013</ref>

"Charleston Road Registry will provide a service on the dotless search domain that will allow users to designate the search functionality of their choice and then perform queries that will automatically be redirected to the appropriate website.  This facility should provide simple, consistent access to the userʹs preferred search functionality that does not exist today."<ref>[https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1319 Application details, ICANN.org] Retrieved 20 Sept 2013</ref>

==Issues==

==Issues==

==References==

==References==

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