Google

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Name: Google Inc.

Nickname: BackRub

Date Founded: September 4, 1998

Place Founded: Menlo Park, California, USA

Founders:

1. Sergey M. Brin
2. Lawrence E. Page

Chairman: Eric E. Schmidt

CEO: Lawrence E. Page

Former CEO: Eric E. Schmidt

Technology President: Sergey M. Brin

Products President: Lawrence E. Page (in April 2001)

Chief Internet Evangelist: Vinton G. Cerf

The name "Google" originated from a play on the word "googol", a mathematical term which refers to 10¹⁰⁰, the number represented by a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google's mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

File types which are returned in a Google search

There are 13 main file types searched by Google in addition to standard web formatted documents in HTML. The most common formats are PDF, PostScript, Microsoft Office formats:

1. Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf)
2. Adobe PostScript (ps)
3. Lotus 1-2-3 (wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku)
4. Lotus WordPro (lwp)
5. MacWrite (mw)
6. Microsoft Excel (xls)
7. Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt)
8. Microsoft Word (doc)
9. Microsoft Works (wks, wps, wdb)
10. Microsoft Write (wri)
11. Rich Text Format (rtf)
12. Shockwave Flash (swf)
13. Text (ans, txt)

Google is also scouring the Web for additional file types that are very rare. You may see them pop up in your results from time to time.