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Keep up to date with news from google, one of the largest American companies that receives it's revenue from advertising.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded google at Stanford University when attending as students. Googleplex the headquarters for google is located in Mountain View, California and has over 19,000 employees.
It has been publicized in Fortune Magazine several times as the #1 place to work. The google brand is one of the best known in the world.
Google went public on August 19, 2004 at which time they raised $1.67 billion and continued to grow through good employee relations, partnerships, philanthropy and some acquisitions. They run millions of servers across the world today and can process 1 petabyte every hour from generated data from users.
Operated by Google, and selecting up to the minute news from thousands of news sources and publications, Google News is a free news aggregator provided service. Krishna Bharat originally developed the idea, that was launched in September 2002 as a beta version, and was officially released in January 2006.
25,000 publishers or more, make up the content, that Google News aggregates within the last 30 days of appearing in news articles and websites. A short clip of 200 characters with a link to the full content is shown on their front page. Some of these linked sites may require a subscription, which is noted in the front page description.
Up to December 1, 2009, users could click and watch their first article free and then had to go behind a paywall to continue to read articles. After this date, their first click was free, then the content provider would set the number after that.
