Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is a U.S. public
corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation in
September 1998, that designed and manages the Internet Google
search engine. The company employs approximately 5,700 employees
and is based in Mountain View, California. Eric Schmidt, formerly
chief executive officer of Novell, was named Google's CEO when
co-founder Larry Page stepped down.
The name "Google" is a play on the word "googol," which refers to
the number represented by 1 followed by one hundred zeros. As a
further play on this, Google's headquarters are referred to as "the
Googleplex" a googolplex being 1 followed by a googol of zeros,
and the HQ being a complex of buildings (cf. multiplex, cineplex,
etc).
Google's services are run on several server farms, each consisting
of many thousand low-cost commodity computers running stripped-down
versions of Linux. While the company does not provide detailed
information about its hardware, it was estimated in 2005 that they
were using over 100,000 Linux machines. See Google platform for
more details on their technology.
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