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WHAT'S A GOOGLE?

"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. It's a very large number.

Google is a company with a very large number of users, and a laser-like focus on finding the right answer for each and every one of them 150 million times a day.

A Google user might be a woman in Atlanta trying to decide what car to buy. Or a doctor in Osaka looking for the latest study on an unusual illness. Or maybe a business executive in London researching a competitor.

A Google user could be a webmaster looking for ways to increase the usefulness of her website or a marketing director in search of better ROI for his ad budget.

The tool they have all chosen to help them is the Google search engine, an easy-to-use online service that scours more than a billion web pages for pertinent information.

In every case Google provides an answer that is unique to the user and uniquely useful. An answer that is delivered quickly and guaranteed to be relevant and clear. And because Google does this better than any other online service, Google users have made it the fastest growing, most used search engine in the world.

How did Google become the "World's Best Search Engine"? That story is one of innovation and an unwillingness to compromise on fundamental principles. It starts with a couple of students who had an idea that was a bit ahead of its time. It's a story that has grown in the telling as user after user has passed on the word to others. Increasingly, that story is being told in all the languages of the world.

To learn more about Google, click on the link at the left for the area that most interests you. Or do what millions of others do every day. Type what you want to find into our search box and hit enter. Once you do, you'll be on your way to understanding why others say, "Google is the closest thing the Web has to an ultimate answer machine."