Google turns 20 - まっただ中に growing questions over whether the search engine that started in a Silicon Valley garage has become too powerful

  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin 始める,決める out to 組織する all of the internet's (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状)?
  • Google has now morphed into a 支配するing 軍隊 in smartphones, ビデオ, email, 地図/計画するs and is even devloping self 運動ing cars
  • 数字表示式の 広告 商売/仕事 is on pace to 生成する about $110 billion in 歳入 this year

Twenty years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin 始める,決める out to 組織する all of the internet's (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状), the search engine they 指名するd Google has morphed into a 支配するing 軍隊 in smartphones, online ビデオ, email, 地図/計画するs and much more.

That resounding success now has regulators and 国会議員s around the world 尋問 whether the company has become too powerful as its ubiquitous services vacuum up 極度の慎重さを要する (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) about billions of people 麻薬中毒の on its 製品s.

Google's search engine remains 堅固に守るd as the internet's main gateway, and its 数字表示式の advertising 商売/仕事 is on pace to 生成する about $110 billion in 歳入 this year.?

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Google's co-founders, CEO Larry Page, left, and Chairman Sergey Brin, rest on bean bags at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif in 2000, when the firm first moved into the area

Google's co-創立者s, CEO Larry Page, left, and Chairman Sergey Brin, 残り/休憩(する) on bean 捕らえる、獲得するs at Google's (警察,軍隊などの)本部 in Mountain 見解(をとる), Calif in 2000, when the 会社/堅い first moved into the area

GOOGLE IN NUMBERS?

Google started 20 years ago today with an 初期の 投資 of $100,000

Google and its sibling companies operating under the umbrella of Alphabet are now 価値(がある) $800 billion.

Its 数字表示式の advertising 商売/仕事 is on pace to 生成する about $110 billion in 歳入 this year?

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Much of that 歳入 now flows through Google's Android operating system, which 力/強力にするs 80 パーセント of the world's smartphones.?

Google also runs the biggest ビデオ 場所/位置 in YouTube, the most popular web browser in Chrome, the 最高の,を越す email service in Gmail and the 地図/計画するs that most people use to get around.

Not bad for a company that started 20 years ago Friday with an 初期の 投資 of $100,000.?

Google and its sibling companies operating under the umbrella of Alphabet Inc. are now 価値(がある) $800 billion.

Although Google wouldn't comment for this story, the company has 繰り返して pointed out that its mostly 解放する/自由な 製品s are so 広範囲にわたって used because people like them.

Google's success often draws comparisons with Microsoft.

In this Jan. 15, 2004, file photo Google co-founders Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin pose for a photo at their company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif

In this Jan. 15, 2004, とじ込み/提出する photo Google co-創立者s Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin 提起する/ポーズをとる for a photo at their company's (警察,軍隊などの)本部 in Mountain 見解(をとる), Calif< /p>

By 1998, the year Google started, U.S. regulators had become so 関心d about Microsoft's 力/強力にする through its Windows operating system that they had begun to 調査する a 軍隊d 崩壊/分裂.?

Although Microsoft remained 損なわれていない, the multiyear 戦う/戦い with the U.S. 政府 and other 論争s with European regulators hobbled and distracted Microsoft, helping to 推進する the rise of Google and Apple.

Google is now 直面するing the same 可能性のある 運命/宿命.

'Google is in the 政府's crosshairs,' said Ken Auletta, who was given inside 接近 to the company while 令状ing his 2009 調書をとる/予約する, 'Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.'?

'This company once had a 確かな glow to it, but it is losing its halo.'

20 YEARS OF GOOGLE?

1995: Co-創立者s Larry Page and Sergey Brin 会合,会う at Stanford University, where grad student Brin gives 見込みのある student Page a 小旅行する.

1996: The pair begin working on a new search engine for the Internet, which 発展させるs to become Google.

1998: Google 会社にする/組み込むs and moves into Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California.

1999: Page and Brin move their company to Mountain 見解(をとる), California, and 雇う the company's first in-house chef to 準備する meals for 労働者s.

Google Employee Playing Piano at Work: An employee at Google's first office relaxes in the company game room, which contains a piano, a Pacman video game, and recreation balls

Google 従業員 Playing Piano at Work: An 従業員 at Google's first office relaxes in the company game room, which 含む/封じ込めるs a piano, a Pacman ビデオ game, and recreation balls

2001: Eric Schmidt is 指名するd CEO, with Page and Brin as 大統領,/社長s of 製品s and 科学(工学)技術.

2004: A few months after introducing Gmail, Google 持つ/拘留するs its first public 在庫/株 申し込む/申し出ing.

In this Jan. 15, 2004, file photo Google co-founders Larry Page, bottom, and Sergey Brin are seen at company headquarters in Mountain View, Calif

In this Jan. 15, 2004, とじ込み/提出する photo Google co-創立者s Larry Page, 底(に届く), and Sergey Brin are seen at company (警察,軍隊などの)本部 in Mountain 見解(をとる), Calif

2006: Google acquires YouTube for $1.6 billion.

2011: Larry Page becomes CEO, Schmidt becomes (n)役員/(a)執行力のある chairman.

2014: Google 完全にするs a 議論の的になる 在庫/株 分裂(する) that creates a n ew class of 非,不,無-投票(する)ing 株, 固く結び付けるing Page and Brin's 支配(する)/統制する as major 投票(する)ing 株主s.

2015: Page 発表するs 創造 of new 持つ/拘留するing company, Alphabet, to 含む Google's 核心 商売/仕事 and other (独立の)存在s.

FILE- In this Aug. 19, 2004, file photo the sign outside the Nasdaq Marketsite shows a picture of Goggle staff attending the opening of the Nasdaq market in New York.

FILE- In this Aug. 19, 2004, とじ込み/提出する photo the 調印する outside the Nasdaq Marketsite shows a picture of Goggle staff …に出席するing the 開始 of the Nasdaq market in New York.

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Just this past week, Google raised hackles in 議会 by 辞退するing to send Page or its 現在の CEO, Sundar Pichai, to a 審理,公聴会 on ロシアの 巧みな操作 of internet services to sway U.S. 選挙s.?

連邦議会の 公式の/役人s left an empty 議長,司会を務める while 最高の,を越す (n)役員/(a)執行力のあるs from Facebook and Twitter appeared.?

In this Feb. 20 2013, file photo, Google co-founder Sergey Brin wears a Google Glass device in San Francisco, in what was seen as a major misstep for the company.

In this Feb. 20 2013, とじ込み/提出する photo, Google co-創立者 Sergey Brin wears a Google Glass 装置 in San Francisco, in what was seen as a major misstep for the company.

Google CEO Larry Page introduces Google Video Store  Friday, Jan. 6, 2006 at the  Consumer Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas.

Google CEO Larry Page introduces Google ビデオ 蓄える/店 Friday, Jan. 6, 2006 at the 消費者 Electronics Show, CES, in Las Vegas.

感情を害する/違反するd 国会議員s derided Google as 'arrogant.'

The European (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 already has 課すd 罰金s totaling $7.8 billion after 結論するing the company had 不公平に used its search engine to 最高潮の場面 its own services and 不法に bundled together its p roducts in Android.

Google has 否定するd any 悪事を働くこと, but that hasn't discouraged European regulators from looking into other possible 乱用s.?

In this Sept. 2, 2008 file photo, Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page talk during a new conference at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif

In this Sept. 2, 2008 とじ込み/提出する photo, Google co-創立者s Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page talk during a new 会議/協議会 at Google Inc. (警察,軍隊などの)本部 in Mountain 見解(をとる), Calif

Google's George Reyes (L), chief financial officer; Dr. Eric E. Schmidt (2nd-L), chairman of the Executive Committee and CEO; 
Omid Kordestani (3rd-L), senior vice president Worldwide Sales & Field Operations; Larry Page (C), co-founder and president, Products; Robert Greifeld (2nd-R), NASDAQ president and CEO; and David Drummond (R), Google vice president of Corporate Development at the opening of Google's public offering on the NASDAQ

Google's George Reyes (L), 長,指導者 財政上の officer; Dr. Eric E. Schmidt (2nd-L), chairman of the (n)役員/(a)執行力のある 委員会 and CEO; Omid Kordestani (3rd-L), 上級の 副/悪徳行為 大統領,/社長 世界的な Sales & Field 操作/手術s; Larry Page (C), co-創立者 and 大統領,/社長, 製品s; Robert Greifeld (2nd-R), NASDAQ 大統領,/社長 and CEO; and David Drummond (R), Google 副/悪徳行為 大統領,/社長 of 法人組織の/企業の 開発 at the 開始 of Google's public 申し込む/申し出ing on the NASDAQ

U.S. 大統領 Donald Trump and some U.S. regulators are now raising the 可能性 of 開始 new 調査s into Google's 商売/仕事 and privacy practices five years after the 連邦の 貿易(する) (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 decided the company was mostly 従うing with the 法律s.

It all paints a picture of a company that may spend the next 10年間 fighting to 保護する the empire it built during its first two 10年間s.

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