This article is about the corporation. For the search engine, see Google Search. For other uses, see Google (disambiguation).
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers onlineproductivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service(Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS[15] for a netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers[16] in the production of its "high-quality low-cost"[17] Nexusdevices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012.[18] In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiberbroadband service.[19]
The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world (as of 2007);[20] and to process over one billion search requests,[21] and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data, each day (as of 2009).[22][23][24][25] In December 2013 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned sites such asYouTube and Blogger.[26] Its market dominance has led to prominent media coverage, including criticism of the company over issues such as search neutrality, copyright, censorship, and privacy.[27][28]