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Google Product: Nexus 10

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The Nexus 10 is a tablet computer developed by Google and Samsung. It is the second tablet in the Google Nexus series, a line of consumer devices implementing the Android operating system and built by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners. Following the success of the 7-inch Nexus 7—the first Google Nexus tablet—the Nexus 10 will be released with a 10.1-inch, 2560×1600 pixel display, which is the world's highest resolution tablet display. The device will be available in two storage sizes, 16 GB for US$399 and 32 GB for US$499. Along with theNexus 4 mobile phone, the Nexus 10 will debut version 4.2 ("Jelly Bean)" of Android, which will feature: 360° panoramic photo stitching called "Photo Sphere"; a quick settings menu; widgets on the lock screen; wireless display sharing via Miracast; gesture typing; an updated version ofGoogle Now; and multiple user accounts for tablets. The Nexus 10 was announced on October 29, 2012, and will be available on November 13, 2012.
The device was scheduled to be announced by Google on October 29, 2012, along with the Nexus 4 and Android 4.2, in a conference in New York City, but as a result of Hurricane Sandy, the event was canceled. Instead, Google revealed the device in an official blog post

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Google Product:Galaxy Nexus

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The Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) is a touchscreen Android smartphone developed by a partnership between Google and Samsung. The phone and operating system were developed collaboratively by engineers from both companies. It is the third generation successor to Google's previous flagship phones, the Nexus One and Nexus S. It has an HD (1280 × 720)Super AMOLED display with curved glass, and an improved camera, and debuted Android version 4.0, codenamed "Ice Cream Sandwich". The name is the result of co-branding between the Samsung Galaxy and Google Nexus brands of Android smartphones. Only in Brazil, due to trademark on the "Nexus" brand, the device is known as Galaxy X.
The Galaxy Nexus was unveiled jointly by Google and Samsung on October 19, 2011 in Hong Kong. It was released in Europe on November 17, 2011.
It is one of the few phones recommended by the Android Open Source Project for building Android from source.

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Google Product:Nexus 7

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The Nexus 7 is a tablet computer designed and developed by Google in conjunction with Asus. It is the first tablet in theGoogle Nexus series, a line of consumer devices implementing the Android operating system and built by an original equipment manufacturer(OEM) partner. The Nexus 7 features a 7-inch (180 mm) display, an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip, 1 GB of RAM, and 8, 16, or 32 GB of internal storage. Incorporating built-in Wi-Fi and near field communication (NFC) connectivity, it is marketed as an entertainment device with integration with Google Play, serving as a platform for multimedia consumption of e-books, television programs, films, games, and music. The tablet was the first device to ship with Android version 4.1, nicknamed "Jelly Bean".
Design work on the Nexus 7 began in January 2012 after a meeting between executives of Google and Asus. Following a rapid four-month development period, mass production of the Nexus 7 started in May 2012. It was unveiled at Google I/O, Google's annual developer conference, on June 27, 2012, and became available for pre-order through Google Play on the same day. Shipping commenced in mid-July to Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In late August, the Nexus 7 was released in France, Germany, and Spain, with other countries to follow. Google expanded the Nexus 7 lineup in October 2012 with 32 GB versions available with Wi-Fi–only and HSPA+ cellular connectivity.
The device received positive reviews from technology critics, particularly for its competitive pricing, premium-quality build, and powerful hardware. Common criticisms included the absence of cellular connectivity from initial models and no expandable storage. The Nexus 7 has been commercially successful, selling approximately 3 million units, according to estimates by Forrester Research in October 2012. The Nexus 7 competes with similar devices such as Amazon's Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet, and Apple's iPad Mini.

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Google Product:Nexus S

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The Nexus S is a smartphone co-developed by Google and Samsung and manufactured by Samsung Electronics for release in 2010. It was the first smartphone to use the Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" operating system, and the first Android device to support Near Field Communication (NFC) in both hardware and software. This was the third time that Google worked with a manufacturer to produce a phone, the first and second being the Google G1and the Nexus One, both by HTC. Following the Nexus S, the next Android Developer phone was the Galaxy Nexus, released the following year.
The Nexus S is produced with four variations. The GT-I9020 (Super AMOLED) and GT-I9023 (Super Clear LCD), each aimed at different markets. The SPH-D720 is the newer 4G version of the phone available in the US. A variant of the GT-I9020, SHW-M200, was released specifically for the Korean market.

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Google Product:Nexus One

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The Nexus One (codenamed HTC Passion) is Google's original flagship smartphone manufactured by Taiwan's HTC Corporation. It became available on January 5, 2010 and uses the Android open source mobile operating system.Features of the phone include the ability to transcribe voice to text, an additional microphone for dynamic noise suppression, and voice guided turn-by-turn navigation to drivers.
The device is sold SIM unlocked (not restricted to use on a single network provider). Google offered T-Mobile USA and AT&T versions of the phone online in the United States before closing the online store in July 2010. A version for use on Vodafone (European) networks was announced on 26 April 2010, available in the UK on 30 April 2010.On March 16, 2010, the Nexus One device became available on the Google web store for sale inCanada for use with most Canadian carriers.In May 2010 Google announced the closing of the web store, with the intention to distribute the phone through partners around the world.
The bootloader of the phone is unlockable, see below.
Apple is targeting the Nexus One in a patent lawsuit against HTC.

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Google Product : Google News

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Google News is a free news aggregator provided and operated by Google Inc, selecting most up-to-date information from thousands of publications by an automatic aggregation algorithm.
Launched in September 2002, the service was tagged as a beta test for over three years until January 2006.The initial idea was developed by Krishna Bharat.
Introduced as a beta release in March 2002, the Google News service came out of beta on January 23, 2006. Different versions of the aggregator are available for more than 60 regions in 28 languages (as of March 15, 2012), with continuing development ongoing. Currently, service in the following languages is offered: Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,Korean, Malayalam, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
The service covers news articles appearing within the past 30 days on various news websites. In total, Google News aggregates content from more than 25,000 publishers. For the English language, it covers about 4,500 sites; for other languages, fewer. Its front page provides roughly the first 200 characters of the article and a link to its larger content. Websites may or may not require a subscription; sites requiring subscription are noted in the article description.
The layout of Google News underwent a major revision on May 16, 2011.
On July 14, 2011, Google introduced "Google News Badges" and split up the Sci/Tech section into two sections: Science and Technology.

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Google Product : Google +

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Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus, sometimes abbreviated as G+) is a multilingual social networking and identity service owned and operated by Google Inc. It was launched in June 28, 2011. As of September 2012, it has a total of 400 million registered users of whom 100 million are active on a monthly basis Unlike other conventional social networks which are generally accessed through a single website, Google has described Google+ as a "social layer" consisting of not just a single site, but rather an overarching "layer" which covers many of its online properties.


Google+ originally launched as Google Circles, a name alluding to its emphasis on organising friendship information.The service was launched as an invitation-only "field test" in June 2011. Early invites were soon suspended due to an "insane demand" for new accounts.On September 20, 2011, Google+ was opened to everyone 18 years of age or older without the need for an invitation.  It was opened for a younger age group (13+ years old in US and most countries, 14+ in South Korea and Spain, 16+ in the Netherlands) on January 26, 2012.
Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles, and introduces new services identified as Circles, Hangouts and Sparks. Google+ is available as a website and on mobile devices. Sources such as The New York Times have declared it Google's biggest attempt to rival the social network Facebook, which has over 800 million users.Google+ is considered the company's fourth foray into social networking, following Google Buzz (launched 2010, retired in 2011),Google Friend Connect (launched 2008, retired by March 1, 2012) and Orkut (launched in 2004, now operated entirely by subsidiary Google Brazil).
In November 2011, Google+ was integrated into the account creation process for other Google services, such as Google Mail. According to independent analysis of its growth in December 2011, the site was adding an estimated number of 625,000 new users a day, which may total 400 million members by the end of 2012. However, on February 28, 2012 Todd Wasserman from Mashable reported Google+ users are only spending 3.3 minutes monthly on Google+ which is a downward trend from 4.8 minutes in December and 5.1 minutes in November compared to Facebook users currently spending 7.5 hours using Facebook monthly.

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Google Product : Google Translate

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Google Translate is a free statistical multilingual machine-translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate written text from one language into another.
Before October 2007, for languages other than Arabic, Chinese and Russian, Google used a SYSTRAN based translator which is used by other translation services such as Babel Fish, AOL, and Yahoo.
On May 26, 2011, Google announced that the Google Translate API had been deprecated and that it would cease functioning on December 1, 2011, "due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse." The shutting down of the API, which is used by a number of websites, has led to criticism of Google and developers questioning the viability of using Google APIs in their products.
On June 3, 2011, Google announced that they were canceling its plan to terminate the Translate API due to public pressure. In the same announcement, Google said that it will release a paid version of the Translate API.

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Google Product : Google Wallet

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Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cardsamong other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone.Google Wallet uses near field communication (NFC) to "make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping the phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at checkout."
Google demonstrated the app at a press conference on May 26, 2011.The app was released on September 19, 2011.
The service works with the 300,000 plus MasterCard PayPass merchant locations, with Visa licensing their Visa payWave system to Google for use in Wallet as of September 20, 2011.

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Google Product : Google Reader

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Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds. It was released by Google on October 7, 2005 through Google Labs. Reader was graduated from beta status on September 17, 2007.


Google made major revisions to Reader's user-interface on September 28, 2006. Product manager Nick Baum described the redesign as a movement toward making news aggregation something for the general public to enjoy. Kevin Fox, the designer of the revised Google Reader, noted that the original version was optimal for those who want to read a "river" of news. The new version took into account that most readers segment their reading by feed, group, tag, folder, or into "must read" and "maybe if I get to it" feeds.
Features of Google Reader as of 2010 include:
  • a front page that lets you see new items at a glance
  • import and export subscription lists as an OPML file
  • keyboard shortcuts for main functions
  • choice between list view or expanded view for item viewing (showing either just the story title or including a description, respectively)
  • automatic marking of items as read as they are scrolled past (expanded view only)
  • search in all feeds, across all updates from subscriptions
Part of the visual redesign of all Google products in 2011, a new Google Reader interface was available on October 31, 2011. Beside the sweeping visual changes, former social features ("share" and "like" buttons) has been removed and replaced by Google+'s +1 button and the "share on Google+" box. It's said that now Reader is on its fourth social model, after using Google Talkcontacts, allowing people to manage friends from the Reader interface, integrating with Google Buzz and then with Google+. The changes have been received unfavorably by multiple online blogs and technical writers, including former Google Reader product manager Brian Shih and former Google Reader lead designer Kevin Fox, and by writers in Wired, Forbes,CNET, and InformationWeek. Over 15,000 users have signed an online petition asking Google to reinstate the original interface.

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Google Product : Google Play

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Google Play, formerly known as the Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated by Google. It opened on 23 October 2008, and provides an online store for music, movies, books, magazines, and Android applications, as well as an online music player. The service is accessible through the internet and the Play Store mobile app, included with most Android and Google TV devices.
On 6 March 2012, with the merging of the Android Market and Google Music, the service was renamed Google Play to coincide with the rebranding of Google's digital distribution strategy.

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Google Product : Android

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Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is currently developed by Google in conjunction with the Open Handset Alliance. Initially developed by Android Inc, whom Google financially backed and later purchased in 2005,Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of 86 hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.
Google releases the Android code as open source, under the Apache License. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP), led by Google, is tasked with the maintenance and further development of Android. Additionally, Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of devices, written primarily in a customized version of Java.They are available for download through Google Play or third-party sites. In October 2012, there were approximately 700,000 apps available for Android, and the estimated number of applications downloaded from Google Play (and the now-defunct Android Market) was 25 billion.
The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008,and by the end of 2010 Android had become the world's leading smartphone platform, overtaking Symbian which held the record previously.It had a worldwide smartphone market share of 75% during the third quarter of 2012, with 500 million devices activated and 1.3 million activations per day. Application of the operating system has also moved beyond mobile phones and tablets, currently televisions, netbooks and cameras are some of the types of devices Android is featured in.

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Google Product : Google Finance

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Google Finance is a website launched on March 21, 2006 by Google. The service features business and enterprise headlines for many corporations including their financial decisions and major news events. Stock information is available, as are Adobe Flash-based stock price charts which contain marks for major news events and corporate actions. The site also aggregates Google News and Google Blog Search articles about each corporation, though links are not screened and often deemed untrustworthy. Google added advertising to its finance page on November 18, 2008 which continues to be shown. Google launched a revamped version of their finance site on December 12, 2006, featuring a new homepage design which lets users see currency information, sector performance for the United States market and a listing of top market movers along with the relevant and important news of the day. A top movers section was also added, based on popularity determined by Google Trends. The upgrade also featured charts containing up to 40 years of data for U.S. stocks,and richer portfolio options. Another update brought real-time ticker updates for stocks to the site, as both NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange partnered with Google in June 2008.

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Google Product : Google Maps

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Google Maps (formerly Google Local) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API.It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, bike (beta), or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. Google Maps satellite images are not updated in real time; they are several months or years old.
Google Maps uses a close variant of the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas.

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Google Product : Google Chrome

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Google Chrome is a freeware web browser  developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was released as a beta version forMicrosoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008. As of September 2012, according to StatCounter, Google Chrome had 34% worldwide usage share of web browsers making it the most widely used web browser.W3Counter indicated that Chrome became the leading browser globally in August 2012 with 28% marketshare. However, Net Applications indicates that Chrome is only third when it comes to the size of its user base, behind Internet Explorer and Firefox.
In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project called Chromium,which Chrome releases are still based on.



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Google Product : Google Talk

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Google Talk is an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication. The instant messaging service is colloquially known as "gchat" to its users, although Google does not endorse this name.
Google Talk is also the name of the client applications offered by Google to access the service. Google Talk applications are available for Microsoft Windows (XP, Server 2003, Vista, and Windows 7), Android,Blackberry,and Google Chrome OS operating systems.
Because the Google Talk servers communicate with clients using an open protocol, Extensible Messaging and Presence ProtocolXMPP, the service can also be accessed using any other client that supports XMPP. Such clients are available for a number of operating systems not supported by the Google Talk client.
VoIP in Google Talk uses an older version of what became the Jingle protocol. The technology used within the Google server network, however, is not publicly known.

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Google Product : Google Buzz

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Google Buzz was a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool that was developed by Google and integrated into their web-based emailprogram, Gmail.Users could share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox.
On October 14, 2011, Google announced that it would be discontinuing the service and that the existing content would be available in read-only mode. Buzz was discontinued on December 15, 2011.
Buzz enabled users to choose to share publicly with the world or privately to a group of friends each time they posted Picasa, Flickr, Google Latitude,Google Reader, Google Sidewiki, YouTube, Blogger, FriendFeed, identi.ca and Twitter were integrated. The creation of Buzz was seen by industry analysts as an attempt by Google to compete with social networking websites like Facebook and microblogging services like Twitter.[1] Buzz also included several interface and interaction elements from other Google products (e.g. Google Reader) such as the ability to "like" a post.
Google executive Sergey Brin said that by offering social communications, Buzz would help bridge the gap between work and leisure, but the service and its rollout were strongly criticized at the time for taking insufficient account of privacy concerns.

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Google Product : Gmail

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Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google.Users may access Gmail as secure webmail,as well as viaPOP3 or IMAP4 protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though still in beta status at that time. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.
With an initial storage capacity offer of 1 GB per user, Gmail significantly increased the webmail standard for free storage from the 2 to 4 MBits competitors such as Hotmail offered at that time. Individual Gmail messages, including attachments, may be up to 25 MB,] which is larger than many other mail services support. Gmail has a search-oriented interface and a "conversation view" similar to an Internet forum. Gmail is noted by web developers for its pioneering use of Ajax. Gmail runs on Google GFE/2.0 on Linux. As of June 2012, it has 425 million active users worldwide.

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Google Product : Google Book

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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. Google's Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004.
Results from Google Books show up in both Google Web Search and the dedicated Google Books site (books.google.com). Up to three results from the Google Books index may be displayed, if relevant, above other search results in Google Web Search.
A click on a result from Google Books opens an interface in which the user may view pages from the book, if out of copyright or if the copyright owner has given permission. Books in the public domain are available in "full view" and free for download. For in-print books where permission has been granted, the number of viewable pages is limited to a "preview" set by a variety of access restrictions and security measures, some based on user-tracking.For books where permission for a "preview" has been refused, only permission for "snippets" (two to three lines of text) may be permitted, but the full text of the book is searchable on this limited basis. Where the owner of a book cannot be identified, a "snippet" view may be implemented. For other books that have neither a "full view", nor "preview", nor a "snippet" view, the text is not searchable at all, and Google Books provides noidentification of content beyond the book title. For this reason, Google-Books searches are an unreliable indicator of the prevalence of specific usages or terms, because many authoritative works fall into the unsearchable category.
Most scanned works are no longer in print or commercially available.For those which are, the site provides links to the website of the publisher and booksellers.


The Google Books database continues to grow. For users outside the United States, though, Google must be sure that the work in question is indeed out of copyright under local laws. According to a member of the Google Books Support Team, "Since whether a book is in the public domain can often be a tricky legal question, we err on the side of caution and display at most a few snippets until we have determined that the book has entered the public domain."Users outside the United States can however access a large number of public domain books scanned by Google using copies stored on the Internet Archive.
Many of the books are scanned using the Elphel 323 camera at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour.The scanning process is subject to errors. For example, some pages are unreadable, or upside down, or in the wrong order. It happens that some pages of one book appear interleaved with those of another, or an entire book may be attributed to the wrong title altogether. Book information such as authors, publishers, dates and so on, may be incorrect or abbreviated incoherently. Very commonly, the list of chapter headings and/or the book index is only partially presented. Although at one time Google provided feedback links to report these problems, the mechanisms for readers to provide this feedback have become more and more curtailed as time goes on.
The initiative has been hailed for its potential to offer unprecedented access to what may become the largest online body of human knowledge and promoting the democratization of knowledge, but it has also been criticized for potential copyright violations.
As of March 2012, the number of scanned books was over 20 million, but the scanning process has slowed down. Google estimated in 2010 that there were about 130 million unique books in the world, and stated that it intended to scan all of them by the end of the decade.

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Google Product : Google AdWords

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Google AdWords is Google's main advertising product and main source of revenue. Google's total advertising revenues were USD$28 billion in 2010.AdWords offers pay-per-click, i.e., cost-per-click (CPC) advertising, cost-per-thousand-impressions or cost-per-mille (CPM) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for text, banner, and rich-media ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. Google's text advertisements are short, consisting of one headline consisting of 25 characters and two additional text lines consisting of 35 characters each. Image ads can be one of several different Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) standard sizes.
Sales and Support for Google's AdWords division in the United States is based in Mountain View, California, with major secondary offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan,the company's third-largest US facility behind its Mountain View, California, headquarters and New York City office. Engineering for Google AdWords is based in Mountain View, California.

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