Amazing IMAGES of Google's new office in Israel

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Amazing IMAGES of Google's new office in Israel

Google's new office in Tel Aviv, Israel, is simply beautiful. The office, which takes up seven of eight floors of the building, has trees, picnic tables and is dotted with some amazing design.
Let's take a look at this incredible office, courtesy of Itay Sikolski, a photographer based in Israel who specialises in architecture photography.



Image: A woman surfs Google home page on an Apple Ipad tablet in Bordeaux, Southwestern France

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Google is an American multinational corporation that provides Internet-related products and services, including Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies.
Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits.

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The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both attended Stanford University. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 per cent of the company's stake.

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Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.

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The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful".

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In 2006, the company moved to its current headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine.

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The company offers online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web browsing, organising and editing photos, and instant messaging.

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Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system, found on specialised netbooks called Chromebooks.

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Google has increasingly become a hardware company with its partnerships with major electronics manufacturers on its high-end Nexus series of devices and its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May 2012, as well as the construction of fiber-optic infrastructure in Kansas City as part of the Google Fiber broadband Internet service project.

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Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centres around the world, and process over one billion search requests and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data every day.

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As of December 2012, Alexa listed the main US-focused google.com site as the Internet's most visited website and numerous international Google sites as being in the top hundred, as well as several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger.

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Google also ranks number two in the BrandZ brand equity database. The dominant market position of Google's services has led to criticism of the company over issues including privacy, copyright, and censorship.

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Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.

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While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analysed the relationships between websites.
They called this new technology PageRank, where a website's relevance was determined by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site.