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Google Analysis : The Google

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Babin M Kunjappa
Dated 18th May 2015
Professor: Dr.Nabie Conteh
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THE GOOGLE UNIVERSE
Google ranks just a notch below Microsoft Corporation at #3 on the Forbes most valuable brands. With a brand value of 65.6 Billion dollars, This Company is one of the biggest organizations in the technology domain. Google was primarily known for its internet search based offering, however the company has diversified in the recent years into offering a variety of products such as messaging (Gmail), blogs, videos (YouTube), mapping (Google Maps), Social networking, Operating systems (Open Handset Alliance), Readers, Cloud based services etc. which has enabled it to be become one of the market leaders in its segment.
Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were students in Stanford University’s Ph.D. program, the Google search engine became popular due to the development and the application of the new Algorithm called the PageRank™ algorithm which rendered the search results based on the popularity or the importance of these page. The popularity index was defined by the number of backlinks the page had. This was a revolutionary breakthrough for Google and users found that the search results from Google were helpful than from the other search engines at that time. Per the Statistical Portal (statista) “In 2014, Google 's ad revenue amounted to almost 59.06 billion US dollars. That year, advertising accounted for 89.5 percent of the online company 's total revenues”. Though

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