This paper outlines the important aspects of Google as a search engine and Android mobile operating system. Google search engine can be used to get all sort of information where as Android operating system continues to deploy better and better operating system by rolling out exciting new features and innovations. In this paper, I have compared Google search engine with Yahoo and Microsoft, and also Android mobile operating system with iPhone, and briefly provided a better understanding to the Google based services. Introduction
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, FWB: GGQ1) is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and produces profit primarily from advertising through its AdWordsprogram and search engine. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the "Google Guys", while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. It was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. The firm went in public and raised $1.67 billion; then its stock price soared; and its revenues became doubled, to $3 billion. (Hymowitz, C., 2004).
The Google’s mission is "to organize the world 's information and make it universally accessible and useful". It runs over 1 million servers in data centers throughout the world and processes over 1 billion search request and it generates 20 penta bytes of user-generated data every day. There is a rapid growth due to inclusion has triggered a series of products, acquisitions, and partnerships apart from e-mail software, and social networking tools, and the latest Google Buzz. Google products extend to the system desktop like Picasa web, Google Chrome web browser. Recently Google from the front leads the growth of Android mobile phone operating system which is used on various phones like Motorola Droid, and the recent Nexus One. As per Alexa, it
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