Google, Inc. provides targeted advertising and Internet search solutions worldwide. It offers intranet solutions via an enterprise search appliance. The company's products and services include Google.com that offers Google Base, which lets content owners submit content that they want to share on Google Web sites; personalized homepage and search; and Google Video and YouTube that lets users find, upload, view, and share video content, as well as Web, image, book, and literature search.

It offers communication, collaboration, and communities, such as Gmail that is Google's Web mail service that comes with built-in Google search technology for searching emails; orkut that enables users to search and connect to other users through networks of trusted friends; Blogger, a Web-based publishing tool that lets people publish to the Web using Weblogs; and Google Docs & Spreadsheets, which allow users to create, view, and edit documents and spreadsheets using a browser.

The company also offers Google GEO that offers earth and local maps; Google Labs that tests product prototypes and solicits feedback on how the technology could be used or improved; and Google Mobile that lets people search and view both the mobile Web, consisting of pages created specifically for wireless devices, and the entire Google index, including products like Image Search.

In addition, it offers AdWords, an online self-service program that enables advertisers to place text-based ads on Google Web sites; AdSense, a program through which Google distributes its advertisers' ads for display on the Web sites of its Google Network members; and Google Checkout, an online shopping payment processing system for consumers and merchants.

Further, the company licenses its Web search technology along with Google AdSense service for search to companies. The company has a strategic alliance with America Online, Inc. Google was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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