Google

Google is an American technology company that develops internet services, software, hardware, and artificial-intelligence products. Its search engine and advertising business underpin a broad ecosystem of consumer and enterprise products.

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Google Search: Google’s web search service, which indexes online content and ranks results in response to queries. The search engine that established Google’s central product and remains a core service.
Gmail: Google’s email service, offering web-based messaging and integrated productivity features. Gmail is one of Google’s most widely used communication services.
PageRank: A link-analysis algorithm that estimates the importance of web pages from the structure of links between them. PageRank helped distinguish Google Search by using the web’s link structure to rank pages.
Backrub: A Stanford University research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin that analyzed links to rank web pages. Backrub was the search-engine precursor from which Google developed.
Search engine optimization: The practice of improving web pages to increase their visibility in unpaid search results. Google’s ranking systems made visibility in search a major concern for publishers and businesses.
Google Ads: Google’s advertising platform for buying and displaying ads across search results, websites, apps, and video. Advertising monetizes Google’s search reach and supports much of its business.
Google Maps: Google’s mapping service for viewing geographic information, planning routes, and finding places. Maps turns Google’s data and location technology into a daily navigation tool.
Web crawler: A program that automatically discovers and retrieves pages and other resources on the web. Google uses crawlers to discover content before its search systems can index it.
Larry Page: An American computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. Page co-developed the link-analysis approach and helped establish Google.
Google antitrust cases: Legal proceedings alleging that Google unlawfully maintained or abused market power in digital markets. Google’s dominance has prompted competition-law challenges in multiple jurisdictions.