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Google is a global technology leader whose mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our innovations in web search, web applications, and advertising have improved the way people connect and share information worldwide. As a company, we continue to pursue a strategic vision first announced in 2007: search, ads, and apps. We launched Google Chrome, an entirely open-source browser designed to make browsing faster, safer and more reliable, and we released the open-source Android mobile phone operating system. We have also made many improvements to our existing products, including refining our search results, launching Moon and Ocean on Google Earth, and adding voice and video chat capacity to Gmail. We also believe that ads are a valuable source of information, one that can connect people to the advertisers offering products and services that interest them.

-“Googol” is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros; Google's play on the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the web
-Everyday, more than a billion people search on Google for information
-Google has more than 60 offices in more than 20 countries
-92% of all eligible Googlers participated in the Stock Option Exchange Program and exchanged over 7 million underwater options
-Google has one of the largest corporate solar installations in the US, enough to power approximately 1,000 average California homes and offset 30% of peak electricity use for the buildings on which panels are installed.