Overview#
Google is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products.These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.
An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet's leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google; he replaced Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet.
Google is a Provider of services including:
- Social Identity Provider (Social Login)
- Part of the Social Web
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- 8.8.8.8
- API Adoption
- API Brokering
- Access Proxy
- AllUsers
- Alphabet Inc
- Android Advertising ID
- Apache Hadoop
- AppAuth
- BeyondCorp
- BigQuery
- BoringSSL
- CAPTCHA
- CRLSets
- Certificate Pinning
- Chrome
- Chrome OS
- Chromium OS
- DNS Privacy Considerations
- DNS over HTTPS
- Device Flow
- Digital Identity
- Firebase
- G-Suite
- G-Suite User
- GCP Cloud CDN
- GCP Domain
- GCP Identity
- GCP Networking Products
- GCP Organizational Admin
- GCP Storage Products
- Gluu Server
- Gmail
- Google API Explorer
- Google Assistant
- Google Authenticator
- Google Cloud DNS
- Google Cloud DataStore
- Google Cloud Functions
- Google Cloud IAM
- Google Cloud Interconnect
- Google Cloud Platform
- Google Cloud SQL
- Google Global Cache
- Google Group
- Google OpenID Connect
- Google X
- HTTP2
- Higgins Project
- Hosted domain
- Identity Broker
- Identity Provider (IDP)
- Identity Toolkit
- Identity Toolkit ID Token
- Instant Messaging
- Jibe Platform
- Key Transparency
- Kubernetes
- Lattice Based Access Control
- Link Relation Types
- Login_hint
- MapReduce
- My Contacts
- OAuth 2.0 Incremental Authorization
- OAuth Scope Example
- OAuth and OIDC Adoption
- OXD
- Object storage
- Open Identity Exchange
- OpenID Connect Use Cases
- OpenID Provider Issuer Discovery
- Operation Aurora
- Organizational Censorship
- PRISM
- Paxos Protocol
- Payment Services Directive
- Perspectives Project
- Policy Information Block
- Portable Contacts
- Protocol Buffers
- Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP
- Quick UDP Internet Connections
- RCS Chat
- ReCAPTCHA
- Remote Procedure Call
- Rich Communication Services
- SPDY
- ScaleFT
- Schema.org
- Single Sign-On Scenarios
- Social Login
- Social Websites
- Softcard
- Strict-Transport-Security
- System for Cross-domain Identity Management
- TLS Client Authentication
- TensorFlow
- Time And Epochs
- Tink
- U2F
- Universal Second Factor
- Universal Second Factor Challenges
- Verily
- Waymo
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- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group
- Web host-meta data
- WebKit
- Why OpenID Connect
- Yubico
- Yubikey NEO
- Zero Trust
- [#1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
- based on information obtained 2014-12-18-
