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Sunday 26 June 2011

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Google is the most popular search engine on the World Wide Web. Through its website and client websites, such as AOL, Google receives at least 200 million search requests per day. Google has its headquarters (called the "Googleplex") in Mountain View, California, USA.
In addition to web pages, Google also provides services for searching images, Usenet newsgroups, news sites, and items for sale online. As of June 2004, Google contained 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images and 845 million Usenet messages in its index; a total of 6 billion items. It also caches much of the content that it indexes.
"To google", as a verb, has come to mean "to search for something on Google;" because of Google's popularity (80% of all web users, perhaps) it has also generically come to mean "to search the web." Google officials have expressed discouragement for this usage of their company name, as it could lead to their name becoming a genericized trademark.

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