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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook.

Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. Google is Alphabet’s leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet’s Internet interests.

The company’s rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google’s core search engine . It offers services designed for work and productivity , email , scheduling and time management , cloud storage , instant messaging and video chat , language translation , mapping and navigation , video sharing , note-taking , and photo organizing and editing .The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser.

Google.com is the most visited website in the world. Several other Google services also figure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google’s mission statement is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”.