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About Google

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Google Inc. is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.[5] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,[6][7] an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful,"[8] and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil".[9][10] In 2004, Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, Californi...

About Twitter

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Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app.[10] Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world.[11] Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012.[12] The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day.[13][14][15] In 2013, Twitter was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet".[16][17] As of May 2015, Twitter has more than 500 million users, out of which more than 332 million are active.[8]

Facebook-This article is about the social networking service. For the type of directory, see face book.

Facebook is a corporation and online social networking service headquartered in Menlo Park, California, in the United States. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg with his Harvard College roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.[8][9][10] The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old was allowed to become a registered user of the website, though the age requirement may be higher depending on applicable local laws.[11] Its name comes from the face book directories often given to American university students.[12] After registering to use the site, users can create a user profile, add other users as "friends",...

Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Indonesia

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Historical Tourist Attractions Tourist Attraction: Candi Borobudur, Java, Indonesia Candi Borobudur (temple) This 9th century temple is an  Indonesia UNESCO Heritage site  located in the heart of Java. It is one of the  largest Buddhist temple in the world , consisting of six square platforms with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha status. Thousands of Buddhists does their pilgrimage here in Borobudur during Waisak day . This Buddhist temple is one of its kind, setting itself apart from the rest of Asia’s Buddhist temple with  unique structures and carvings . Try to get in during the earliest opening time at 8am to catch the temple at the most serene to fully appreciate the beauty of it. Tourist Attraction: Candi Prambanan, Java, Indonesia Candi Prambanan (temple) Prambanan, a Hindu temple situated in Yogyakarta, is a well known tourist attraction in Java, Indonesia. It is built during the 9th century for Trimurti as an expression that God is the ...