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Google  

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  • Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while graduate students at Stanford University and has become a leading Internet and computer software corporation best known for developing the world's most popular Web search engine. The company derived its name from the word googol, a term that represents 10 to the power of 100 (the numeral one followed by 100 zeros). [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Networks; Google]

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