Who owns google?

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares.

Do they also own any traditional media businesses?

Yes, they own youtube

What is its revenue?

Unlike some Internet companies, Google has multiple ways of generating revenue beyond private investment or selling shares of its stock. Google uses three methods to partner with merchants and advertisers: Google Checkout, Google AdWords and Google AdSense.

What is its overall worth?

$241 billion for Google, reflecting the underlying value of the companies'

Research five key facts about the institution

1)Google is a guide, not a gatekeeper

2)Consumer Choice

3)Advertiser Choice

4)Google’s Commitment to Data Portability

5)Investing in Open Source and Open Standards

Find tWhether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.hree quotes (with references) about the institution –Bill Gates

Google never knew how successful key words would be.-Yuri Milner

I never Google myself. Only if I want to feel really terrible about myself would I do that.-Sienna Miller

Summarise two linked Wikipedia articles (5 bullet points each)

‘Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 16 percent of its shares. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998.’

‘An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful",[9] and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil".[10][11] In 2006 Google moved to headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex’

List the key info provided on the company’s corporate homepage

-links to images, videos, news, web, maps and shopping.