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Google Search for "biryani near me" on an Android phone. Google finds the answer, and Google Maps shows the way. A few sponsored results sit at the top, and a restaurant has paid for each one. You pay for the biryani with Google Pay, then watch a video on YouTube on the way home. Every step ran on Google's software, and Google has engineers in India working on each of these products.

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University in California. It began as a search engine. Since 2015, Google has been part of a parent company called Alphabet. Alphabet also owns a few other businesses, such as Waymo, which builds self-driving cars.

Google opened its first offices in India in 2004, in Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Today it has engineers in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurugram and Pune. Some Google products were first built in India. Google Pay began in India in 2017, under the name Tez.

Every name listed here has posted software engineering jobs in India. Waymo is covered in the product-companies collection, because its work fits one product line. (More on it in Market Segment 38.2, Autonomous driving and ADAS, in Industry Vertical 38, Automotive and mobility, in the product-companies collection.)

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  • What Google sells, and to whom
  • What it builds in India
  • Where its products are explained
  • The names it hires under
 What Google sells, and to whom

Most of Google's products are free for the people who use them. Search, Maps, Gmail, Android and YouTube cost nothing. Google makes most of its money from advertising instead. A business pays Google to show its ad beside a search result, inside a YouTube video, or on another company's website or app.

Google earns the rest of its money in a few other ways:

Google Cloudcompanies rent computing, storage and data tools, and pay for what they use Google Workspacecompanies pay for each employee to use business versions of Gmail, Docs and Meet subscriptionspaid by people, such as YouTube Premium and extra storage devicessuch as Pixel phones the Play Storewhich takes a share of what people pay for apps People use Google's products for free, businesses pay Google to show their ads to the right people, and the ads appear beside search results, inside YouTube videos and on other websites and apps. The rest of Google's money comes from Google Cloud, Google Workspace, subscriptions, devices and the Play Store.People use Google's products for free, businesses pay Google to show their ads to the right people, and the ads appear beside search results, inside YouTube videos and on other websites and apps. The rest of Google's money comes from Google Cloud, Google Workspace, subscriptions, devices and the Play Store.

Google's products fall into a few large families:

Search and adsGoogle Search, and the ad systems that place ads on search, YouTube and millions of other websites Androidthe operating system on most of the world's smartphones, and the Play Store YouTubethe largest video website in the world, bought in 2006 Everyday appsMaps, Gmail, Chrome and Google Pay Google Cloudthe third-largest cloud in the world, after AWS and Microsoft Azure, and Workspace AIGemini, Google's own AI model and assistant What it builds in India

Google's engineers in India work across most of these families: search, ads, Android, YouTube, Maps, payments and Google Cloud. Like other big tech companies, they build the same products the rest of the world uses. Some of their work is aimed at India first, such as Google Pay and support for Indian languages.

Google DeepMind is Google's AI research lab. It began in London in 2010, and Google bought it in 2014. It became famous for AlphaGo, which beat the world's best players at the board game Go, and AlphaFold, which predicts the shapes of proteins. Today it also builds Gemini.

Google Operations Center is a separate company that Google owns. It handles customer support and other operations work for Google's products.

Alphabet is the parent company of Google and of a few other businesses, such as Waymo. Google DeepMind, its AI research lab, and Google Operations Center, a separate company Google owns, hire in India under their own names, alongside Google itself.Alphabet is the parent company of Google and of a few other businesses, such as Waymo. Google DeepMind, its AI research lab, and Google Operations Center, a separate company Google owns, hire in India under their own names, alongside Google itself. You're reading as a guest. Sign in free to follow links for five minutes, once an hour. Where its products are explained

Most of what Google sells is also made by other companies. The product-companies collection explains how each kind of product works, through those companies:

Google's ads, for advertisersMarket Segment 34.1, Ad buying platforms (DSPs) and ad networks, in Industry Vertical 34, Adtech. AdSense and Ad Manager, for websites that sell ad spaceMarket Segment 34.2, Publisher ad monetisation platforms (SSPs), in Industry Vertical 34, Adtech. Google CloudMarket Segment 5.1, Cloud infrastructure and web hosting providers, in Industry Vertical 5, Cloud providers and OS makers. Google's data centresMarket Segment 3.1, Data centre and colocation providers, in Industry Vertical 3, Data centres and servers. BigQueryMarket Segment 7.1, Databases and data warehouses, in Industry Vertical 7, Database and storage companies. LookerMarket Segment 8.2, Business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms, in Industry Vertical 8, Analytics and data providers. ApigeeMarket Segment 6.1, DevOps and CI/CD tools, in Industry Vertical 6, Devtools companies. Google's security operations productsMarket Segment 4.9, SIEM and security operations (SOC), in Industry Vertical 4, Cybersecurity. Keeping YouTube and other platforms safeMarket Segment 4.15, Physical security, surveillance and trust and safety, in Industry Vertical 4, Cybersecurity. Google WorkspaceMarket Segment 16.3, Work management and knowledge platforms, in Industry Vertical 16, IT management and workplace tools. Google MeetMarket Segment 2.2, UCaaS and cloud phone systems, in Industry Vertical 2, Business communications. Google MapsMarket Segment 8.4, Mapping and location intelligence platforms, in Industry Vertical 8, Analytics and data providers. Google PayMarket Segment 17.5, UPI apps, wallets and neobanks, in Industry Vertical 17, Payments. GeminiMarket Segment 9.1, Foundation model companies, in Industry Vertical 9, AI labs and model platforms. The names it hires under

Google hires in India under three names:

Googlethe company's own name, used across its products Google DeepMindthe AI research lab Google Operations Centerthe Google-owned company that runs support and operations work Search becomes an answer.

For twenty-five years, Google showed a list of links, with ads beside them. Now its search increasingly writes the answer itself, using Gemini. That changes how Google makes money, since fewer people click on links and ads. Google is also building a large AI data centre hub in Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh.

 That is Google: free products paid for by advertising, and a growing cloud, with engineers in India working on nearly all of them.
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