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#
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- API Brokering
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- AllUsers
- Alphabet Inc
- Apache Hadoop
- AppAuth
- BeyondCorp
- BigQuery
- CAPTCHA
- CRLSets
- Chrome
- DNS over HTTPS
- Device Flow
- Digital Identity
- G-Suite
- G-Suite User
- GCP Cloud CDN
- GCP Domain
- GCP Identity
- GCP Networking Products
- GCP Organizational Admin
- Gluu Server
- 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 Provider (IDP)
- Identity Toolkit
- Identity Toolkit ID Token
- Instant Messaging
- Key Transparency
- Lattice Based Access Control
- Link Relation Types
- Login_hint
- MapReduce
- My Contacts
- OAuth 2.0 Incremental Authorization
- OAuth Scope Example
- OXD
- Object storage
- Open Identity Exchange
- OpenID Connect Use Cases
- OpenID Provider Issuer Discovery
- Operation Aurora
- Paxos Protocol
- Payment Services Directive
- Perspectives Project
- Policy Information Block
- Portable Contacts
- Protocol Buffers
- Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP
- ReCAPTCHA
- Remote Procedure Call
- SPDY
- ScaleFT
- Single Sign-On Scenarios
- Social Login
- Social Websites
- Softcard
- System for Cross-domain Identity Management
- TensorFlow
- Universal Second Factor
- Universal Second Factor Challenges
- Verily
- Waymo
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- WebKit
- Why OpenID Connect
- Yubico
- Yubikey NEO
- Zero Trust
- [#1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
- based on information obtained 2014-12-18-
