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Google by the numbers

By The Associated Press

Founded: In 1998 by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Employees: 2,292
Headquarters: Mountain View, Calif.
Financials: Earned $105.6 million, or 41 cents per share, on revenue of $962 million in 2003.

Primary revenue source: Advertising linked to online searches.
Daily searches performed: More than 200 million.
Number of Web documents searched: More than 4 billion.
Unique users per month: 81.9 million.
Competitors: Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Ask Jeeves, AltaVista, America Online.
Origin of company name: A play on the mathematical term, "googol," which refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. It reflects the company's mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the Web.

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