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| Website | www.google.com |
www.microsoft.com |
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| Founded | September 7, 1998 |
April 4, 1975 |
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| Founders | Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
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| Maps | Yes |
Yes |
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| Book search | Yes |
No |
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| Industry | Internet, computer software |
Computer software, Publishing, Research and development, Computer hardware, Video games |
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| Stock Ticker | GOOG |
MSFT |
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| Products | AdWords, Search, YouTube, Gmail, Orkut, Google earth, Google labs etc. Google maps, Picasa, Google books, Google Scholar, Google Docs, Google Chrome, and Chromebook |
Microsoft Windows Microsoft Office Microsoft Servers Developer Tools Business Solutions Xbox, Games, Windows Essentials, Zune, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Microsoft Paint, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Surface, Windows Phone, Skype, Skydrive, MSE |
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| CEO | Sundar Pichai |
Satya Nadella |
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| Headquarters | Mountain view, California, USA |
Redmond, Washington, USA |
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| Instant messaging | Yes: Hangouts |
Yes: Skype, Windows Live Messenger (only in China) |
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| Subsidiaries | @Last Software, Inc. Android, Inc. Applied Semantics, Inc. dMarc Broadcasting, Inc. Ganji Inc. Google International LLC Google LLC Google Payment Corp. Ignite Logic, Inc. JASS Inc. JG Productions Inc. JotSpot Inc. Kaltix Corporation Liquid Acquisitio |
Microsoft Store, Winternals, Microsoft Mobile, Revolution Analytics, Skype Technologies, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Studios, Avanade, Rare, Razorfish, Microsoft India, MileIQ, Microsoft Research Asia, Turn 10 Studios, Parature (too many to list) |
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| Employees | 53, 600 (Q4 2014) |
128, 076 (June 2014) |
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| Introduction (from Wikipedia) | Google is United States-headquartered, multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, could computing, and software. |
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. |
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| Key people | Sundar Pichai (CEO), Eric Schmidt (Chairman), Sergey Brin (Director of Google X and Special Projects) |
Satya Nadella, CEO, Steve Ballmer, Former CEO, William Henry "Bill" Gates, Former CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder Paul Allen, Co-founder Tony Bates, Skype Lisa Brummel, Chief People Officer Qi Lu, Online Services |
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| Browser | Google Chrome |
Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge |
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| E-Mail Service | Yes:Gmail |
Yes: Outlook.com (Web-based service, replaced Hotmail), Microsoft Office Outlook (Desktop Email Client) |
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| Mail | Yes (15GB free) |
Yes |
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| Area served | Worldwide(except various places) |
Worldwide |
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| Search | Yes |
Yes |
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| Mobile Phone | Google Pixel (1,2,3, and Plus models) |
Many devices running on the Windows Phone Operating System |
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| Slogan | Don't be evil |
Empowering us all |
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| Job site | No |
No |
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| Purchase or Free | Free |
Paid |
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| Registration | Optional |
Optional |
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| Social Network | Yes (YouTube) |
No |
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| Download | Yes |
No |
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| Image search | Yes |
Yes |
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| Company type | Public |
Public |
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| User generated video | Yes |
No |
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Comments: Google vs Microsoft