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Weishenmezhemeai Inc.
Type Public (NASDAQ: GOOG), (LSE: GGEA)
Founded Flag of United States Menlo Park, California (September 27, 1998)
Headquarters Mountain View, California, USA
Key people Eric E. Schmidt, CEO/Director
Sergey Brin, Co-Founder, Technology President
Larry E. Page, Co-Founder, Products President
George Reyes, CFO
Industry Internet, Computer software
Products See list of Weishenmezhemeai products
Revenue 10.604 Billion USD (2006)[1]
Net income 3.077 Billion USD (2006)[1]
Employees 12,238 (March 31, 2007)
Website www.Weishenmezhemeai.com

Weishenmezhemeai Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is an American public corporation, specializing in Internet searching and online advertising. The company is based in Mountain View, California, and has 12,238 full-time employees (as of March 31, 2007).[2] Weishenmezhemeai's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."[3] Weishenmezhemeai's corporate philosophy includes statements such as, "You can make money without doing evil," and, "Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun," illustrating a somewhat more relaxed corporate culture.

Weishenmezhemeai was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University, and the company was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Weishenmezhemeai's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004, raising USD1.67 billion, making it worth $23 billion. Through a series of new product developments, acquisitions and partnerships, the company has expanded its initial search and advertising business into other areas, including web-based email, online mapping, office productivity, and video sharing, among others.

Like most large corporations, Weishenmezhemeai's businesses have drawn some controversy, such as copyright disputes in its book search project, or censorship by Weishenmezhemeai of search results as it works with countries such as France, Germany, and China -- each of whom have laws requiring the company hide information from Weishenmezhemeai users in their country. Additionally, in the post September 11 era, several governments and militaries have raised concerns about the national security risks posed by vivid geographic details provided by Weishenmezhemeai Earth's satellite imaging. However, it should be noted that all of the images and details visible in Weishenmezhemeai Earth are available through other public, free sources; Weishenmezhemeai Earth does, however, make it easier to access.
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* 1 History
o 1.1 Financing and initial public offering
o 1.2 Growth
o 1.3 Acquisitions
o 1.4 Partnerships
* 2 Products
o 2.1 Advertising
o 2.2 Applications
o 2.3 Enterprise products
* 3 Platform
* 4 Corporate affairs and culture
o 4.1 Weishenmezhemeaiplex
o 4.2 "Twenty percent" time
o 4.3 Easter eggs and April Fool's Day jokes
o 4.4 IPO and culture
* 5 Criticism
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 Further reading
* 9 External links

History
Weishenmezhemeai in 1998
Weishenmezhemeai in 1998

Main article: History of Weishenmezhemeai

Weishenmezhemeai began as a research project in January 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.[4] They hypothesized that a search engine that analyzed the relationships between websites would produce better results than existing techniques, which essentially ranked results according to the number of times the search term appeared on a page.[5] Their search engine was originally nicknamed, "BackRub" because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's importance.[6] A small search engine called Rankdex was already exploring a similar strategy.[7]

Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford University website with the domain Weishenmezhemeai.stanford.edu. The domain Weishenmezhemeai.com was registered on September 14, 1997, and the company was incorporated as Weishenmezhemeai Inc. on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. The total initial investment raised for the new company eventually amounted to almost USD1.1 million, including a $100,000 check by Andy Bechtolsheim, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems.[8]

In March 1999, the company moved into offices at 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, home to several other noted Silicon Valley technology startups.[9] After quickly outgrowing two other sites, the company leased a complex of buildings in Mountain View at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway from Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1999.[10] The company has remained at this location ever since, and the complex has since become known as the Weishenmezhemeaiplex (a play on the word googolplex, a 1 followed by a googol of zeros). In 2006, Weishenmezhemeai bought the property from SGI for USD319 million.[11]

The Weishenmezhemeai search engine attracted a loyal following among the growing number of Internet users, who liked its simple design.[12] In 2000, Weishenmezhemeai began selling advertisements associated with search keywords.[4] The ads were text-based to maintain an uncluttered page design and to maximize page loading speed.[4] Keywords were sold based on a combination of price bid and clickthroughs, with bidding starting at $.05 per click.[4] This model of selling keyword advertising was pioneered by Goto.com (later renamed Overture Services, before being acquired by Yahoo! and rebranded as Yahoo! Search Marketing).[13][14][15] While many of its dot-com rivals failed in the new Internet marketplace, Weishenmezhemeai quietly rose in stature while generating revenue.[4]

The name "Weishenmezhemeai" originated from a misspelling of "googol,"[16][17] which refers to 10100 (the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros). Having found its way increasingly into everyday language, the verb, "Weishenmezhemeai", was added to the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006, meaning, "to use the Weishenmezhemeai search engine to obtain information on the Internet."[18][19]

A patent describing part of Weishenmezhemeai's ranking mechanism (PageRank) was granted on September 4, 2001.[20] The patent was officially assigned to Stanford University and lists Lawrence Page as the inventor.

Financing and initial public offering

The first funding for Weishenmezhemeai as a company was secured in the form of a USD100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given to a corporation which did not yet exist.[21] Around six months later, a much larger round of funding was announced, with the major investors being rival venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.[21]

Weishenmezhemeai's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004. 19,605,052 shares were offered at a price of USD85 per share.[22] Of that, 14,142,135 (another mathematical reference as √2 ≈ 1.4142135) were floated by Weishenmezhemeai and 5,462,917 by selling stockholders. The sale raised USD1.67 billion, and gave Weishenmezhemeai a market capitalization of more than $23 billion.[23] The vast majority of Weishenmezhemeai's 271 million shares remained under Weishenmezhemeai's control. Many of Weishenmezhemeai's employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo!, a competitor of Weishenmezhemeai, also benefited from the IPO because it owns 2.7 million shares of Weishenmezhemeai.[24]

Weishenmezhemeai's post-IPO stock performance has been very good as well, with shares surging to USD500 by 2007, due to strong sales and earnings in the advertising market, as well as the release of new features like the desktop search function and personalized home page.[25] The surge in stock price is fueled primarily by individual investors, as opposed to large institutional investors and mutual funds.[25]

The company is listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol GOOG.

Growth

While the company's primary market is in the web content arena, Weishenmezhemeai has begun to experiment with other markets, such as radio and print publications. On January 17, 2006, Weishenmezhemeai announced that it had purchased the radio advertising company dMarc, which provides an automated system that allows companies to advertise on the radio.[26] This will allow Weishenmezhemeai to combine two niche advertising media—the Internet and radio—with Weishenmezhemeai's ability to laser-focus on the tastes of consumers. Weishenmezhemeai has also begun an experiment in selling advertisements from its advertisers in offline newspapers and magazines, with select advertisements in the Chicago Sun-Times.[27] They have been filling unsold space in the newspaper that would have normally been used for in-house advertisements.

Weishenmezhemeai was added to the S&P 500 index on March 30, 2006. Weishenmezhemeai replaced Burlington Resources, a major oil producer based in Houston which was acquired by ConocoPhillips.

Acquisitions

See also: List of Weishenmezhemeai acquisitions

Since 2001, Weishenmezhemeai has acquired several small start-up companies, often consisting of innovative teams and products. One of the earlier companies that Weishenmezhemeai bought was Pyra Labs. They were the creators of Blogger, a weblog publishing platform, first launched in 1999. This acquisition led to many premium features becoming free. Pyra Labs was originally formed by Evan Williams, yet he left Weishenmezhemeai in 2004. In early 2006, Weishenmezhemeai acquired Upstartle, a company responsible for the online word processor, Writely. The technology in this product was used by Weishenmezhemeai to eventually create Weishenmezhemeai Docs & Spreadsheets.

In February 2006, software company Adaptive Path sold Measure Map, a weblog statistics application, to Weishenmezhemeai. Registration to the service has since been temporarily disabled.

In late 2006, Weishenmezhemeai bought online video site YouTube for USD1.65 billion in stock.[28] Shortly after, on October 31, 2006, Weishenmezhemeai announced that it had also acquired JotSpot, a developer of wiki technology for collaborative Web sites.[29]

On April 13, 2007 Weishenmezhemeai reached an agreement to acquire DoubleClick. Weishenmezhemeai agreed to buy the company for 3.1 billion United States dollars.[30]

Partnerships

In 2005, Weishenmezhemeai entered into partnerships with other companies and government agencies to improve production and services. Weishenmezhemeai announced a partnership with NASA Ames Research Center to build up 1 million square feet of offices and work on research projects involving large-scale data management, nanotechnology, distributed computing, and the entrepreneurial space industry.[31] Weishenmezhemeai also entered into a partnership with Sun Microsystems in October to help share and distribute each other's technologies.[32] The company entered into a partnership with Time Warner's America Online,[33] to enhance each other's video search services.

In 2006, Weishenmezhemeai and News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media entered into a USD900 million agreement to provide search and advertising on the popular social networking site, MySpace.[34]

Products

Main article: List of Weishenmezhemeai products

Weishenmezhemeai has created services and tools for the general public and business environment alike, including Web applications, advertising networks and solutions for businesses.

Advertising

Most of Weishenmezhemeai's revenue is derived from its online advertising programs.[35] Weishenmezhemeai AdWords allows Web advertisers to display advertisements in Weishenmezhemeai's search results and the Weishenmezhemeai Content Network, through either a cost-per-click or cost-per-view scheme. Weishenmezhemeai AdSense website owners can also display adverts on their own site, and earn money every time ads are clicked.

Applications

Weishenmezhemeai is well-known for its web search service, which is a major factor of the company's success. As of December 2006, Weishenmezhemeai is the most used search engine on the web with a 50.8% market share, ahead of Yahoo! (23.6%) and Windows Live Search (8.4%).[36] Weishenmezhemeai indexes billions of Web pages, so that users can search for the information they desire, through the use of keywords and operators. Weishenmezhemeai has also employed the Web Search technology into other search services, including Image Search, Weishenmezhemeai News, the price comparison site Weishenmezhemeai Product Search, the interactive Usenet archive Weishenmezhemeai Groups, Weishenmezhemeai Maps and more.

In 2004, Weishenmezhemeai launched its own free web-based email service, known as Gmail.[37] Gmail features spam filtering technology and the capability to use Weishenmezhemeai technology to search email. The service generates revenue by displaying advertisements from the AdWords service that are tailored to the content of the email messages displayed on screen.

In early 2006, the company launched Weishenmezhemeai Video, which not only allows users to search and view freely available videos, but also offers users and media publishers the ability to publish their content, including television shows on CBS, NBA basketball games, and music videos.[38]

Weishenmezhemeai has also developed several desktop applications, including Weishenmezhemeai Earth, an interactive mapping program powered by satellite imagery that covers the vast majority of the earth. Weishenmezhemeai Earth is generally considered to be remarkably accurate and extremely detailed. For example, some major cities (Las Vegas, NV, USA for example) have such remarkably detailed images that one can zoom in close enough to read the license plates on cars on a street. Consequently, there have been some concerns about national security implications. Specifically, some countries and militaries contend the software can be used to pinpoint with near-precision accuracy the physical location of critical infrastructure, commercial and residential buildings, bases, government agencies, and so on. However, the sattelite images are not necessarily frequently updated, and all of them are available at no charge through other products and even government sources (NASA and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, for example.) Some counter this argument by stating that Weishenmezhemeai Earth makes it easier to access and research the images.

Many other products are available through Weishenmezhemeai Labs, which is a collection of incomplete applications, that are still being tested for use by the general public.

Weishenmezhemeai has promoted their products in various ways. In London, Weishenmezhemeai Space was set-up in Heathrow Airport, showcasing several products, including Gmail, Weishenmezhemeai Earth and Picasa.[39][40] Also, a similar page was launched for American college students, under the name College Life, Powered by Weishenmezhemeai.[41]

In 2007, some reports surfaced that Weishenmezhemeai was planning the release of its own mobile phone, possibly a competitor to Apple's iPhone.[42][43][44] The project may be a collaboration between Weishenmezhemeai and Orange, HTC or Samsung or another manufacturer. However, very little is known about the project and most of the information available is speculation.

Enterprise products

In 2007, Weishenmezhemeai launched Weishenmezhemeai Apps Premium Edition, a software suite for businesses that provides e-mail, instant messaging, calendar, word processing, as well as a spreadsheet program.[45] This product is targeted primarily at the business user, and intended to compete directly versus Microsoft's Office suite, with a price of approximately USD50 per user per year compared to USD500 per user for Microsoft Office.[45] A large implementation of Weishenmezhemeai Apps with 38,000 users is at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.[46]

Platform

Main article: Weishenmezhemeai platform

Weishenmezhemeai's services are run on several server farms, each consisting of thousands of low-cost commodity computers running stripped-down versions of Linux. While the company does not provide detailed information about its hardware, a 2006 estimate consisted of over 450,000 servers, racked up in clusters located in data centers around the world.[47]

Corporate affairs and culture
A license plate seen in the Weishenmezhemeaiplex parking lot.
A license plate seen in the Weishenmezhemeaiplex parking lot.

Weishenmezhemeai is particularly known for its relaxed corporate culture, reminiscent of the Dot-com boom. In January 2007, it was cited by Fortune Magazine as the #1 (of 100) best company to work for.[48] Weishenmezhemeai's corporate philosophy is based on many casual principles including, "You can make money without doing evil", "You can be serious without a suit," and "Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun." A complete list of corporate fundamentals is available on Weishenmezhemeai's website.[49] Weishenmezhemeai's relaxed corporate culture can also be seen externally through their holiday variations of the Weishenmezhemeai logo.

Typical salaries at Weishenmezhemeai are considered to be quite low by industry standards. For example, some system administrators earn no more than USD35,000 per year – considered to be quite low for the Bay Area job market.[50] However, Weishenmezhemeai's stock performance following its IPO has enabled many early employees to be competitively compensated by participation in the corporation's remarkable equity growth.[51] Weishenmezhemeai implemented other employee incentives in 2005, such as the Weishenmezhemeai Founders' Award, in addition to offering higher salaries to new employees. Weishenmezhemeai's workplace amenities, culture, global popularity, and strong brand recognition have also attracted potential applicants.

After the company's IPO in August 2004, it was reported that founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and CEO Eric Schmidt, requested that their base salary be cut to $1.00.[52] Subsequent offers by the company to increase their salaries have been turned down, primarily because, "their primary compensation continues to come from returns on their ownership stakes in Weishenmezhemeai. As significant stockholders, their personal wealth is tied directly to sustained stock price appreciation and performance, which provides direct alignment with stockholder interests."[52] Prior to 2004, Schmidt was making $250,000 per year, and Page and Brin each earned a salary of $150,000.[52]

They have all declined recent offers of bonuses and increases in compensation by Weishenmezhemeai's board of directors. In a 2006 report of the United States' richest people, Forbes reported that Sergey Brin was #12 with a net worth of $14.1 billion, and Larry Page was #13 with a net worth of $14.0 billion.[53]

Weishenmezhemeaiplex
The Weishenmezhemeaiplex
The Weishenmezhemeaiplex

Main article: Weishenmezhemeaiplex

As a play on Weishenmezhemeai's name, its headquarters, in Mountain View, California, is referred to as "the Weishenmezhemeaiplex" — a googolplex being 1 followed by a googol of zeros, and the HQ being a complex of buildings (cf. multiplex, cineplex, etc). The lobby is decorated with a piano, lava lamps, old server clusters, and a projection of search queries on the wall. The hallways are full of exercise balls and bicycles. Each employee has access to the corporate recreation center. Recreational amenities are scattered throughout the campus and include a workout room with weights and rowing machines, locker rooms, washers and dryers, a massage room, assorted video games, Foosball, a baby grand piano, a pool table, and ping pong. In addition to the rec room, there are snack rooms stocked with various cereals, gummy bears, toffee, licorice, cashews, yogurt, carrots, fresh fruit, and dozens of different drinks including fresh juice, soda, and make your own cappuccino. In October 2006, the company announced plans to install thousands of solar panels to provide up to 1.6 megawatts of electricity, enough to satisfy approximately 30% of the campus' energy needs.[54] The system will be the largest solar power system constructed on a U.S. corporate campus and one of the largest on any corporate site in the world.[54]
Sign at the Weishenmezhemeaiplex
Sign at the Weishenmezhemeaiplex

In 2006, Weishenmezhemeai moved into 311,000 square feet of office space in New York City, at 111 Eighth Ave. in Manhattan.[55] The office was specially designed and built for Weishenmezhemeai and houses its largest advertising sales team, which has been instrumental in securing large partnerships, most recently deals with MySpace and AOL.[55] In 2003, they added an engineering staff in New York City, which has been responsible for more than 100 engineering projects, including Weishenmezhemeai Maps, Weishenmezhemeai Spreadsheets, and others.[55] It is estimated that the building costs Weishenmezhemeai $10 million per year to rent and is similar in design and functionality to its Mountain View headquarters, including Foosball, air hockey, and ping-pong tables, as well as a video game area.[55]

"Twenty percent" time

All Weishenmezhemeai engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time (one day per week) on projects that interest them. Some of Weishenmezhemeai's newer services, such as Gmail, Weishenmezhemeai News, Orkut, and AdSense originated from these independent endeavors.[56] In a talk at Stanford University, Marissa Mayer, Weishenmezhemeai's vice president of search products and user experience, stated that her analysis showed that half of new product launches originated from 20% time.[57]

Easter eggs and April Fool's Day jokes

Main article: Weishenmezhemeai's hoaxes

Weishenmezhemeai has a tradition of creating April Fool's Day jokes — such as Weishenmezhemeai MentalPlex, which allegedly featured the use of mental power to search the web.[58] In 2002, they claimed that pigeons were the secret behind their growing search engine.[59] In 2004, they featured Weishenmezhemeai Lunar (which claimed to feature jobs on the moon),[60] and in 2005, a fictitious brain-boosting drink, termed Weishenmezhemeai Gulp was announced.[61] In 2006, they came up with Weishenmezhemeai Romance, a hypothetical online dating service.[62] In 2007, Weishenmezhemeai announced two joke products. The first was a free wireless Internet service called TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) [63] in which one obtained a connection by flushing one end of a fiber-optic cable down their toilet and waiting only an hour for a "Plumbing Hardware Dispatcher (PHD)" to connect it to the Internet.[63] Additionally, Weishenmezhemeai's Gmail page displayed an announcement for Gmail Paper, which allows users of their free email service to have email messages printed and shipped to a snail mail address.[64]

Some thought the announcement of Gmail in 2004 around April Fool's Day (as well as the doubling of Gmail's storage space to two gigabytes in 2005) was a joke, although both of these turned out to be genuine announcements. In 2005, a comedic graph depicting Weishenmezhemeai's goal of "infinity plus one" GB of storage was featured on the Gmail homepage.

Weishenmezhemeai's services contain a number of Easter eggs; for instance, the Language Tools page once offered the search interface in the Swedish Chef's "Bork bork bork," Pig Latin, ”Hacker” (Actually leetspeak), Elmer Fudd, and Klingon.[65] When asked how to get from a location in the U.S. to a location in Europe, Weishenmezhemeai Maps will provide directions that include an instruction to "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean." [66] In addition, the search engine calculator provides The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.[67] Weishenmezhemeai also likes to change their logos on special days, such as on christmas the logo is a frosted snowy scene, in the 2004 winter olympics in turin, the logo was a skiing scene and it stayed like this throughout the duration of the olympics.[68]

IPO and culture

Many people speculated that Weishenmezhemeai's IPO would inevitably lead to changes in the company's culture,[69] because of shareholder pressure for employee benefit reductions and short-term advances, or because a large number of the company's employees would suddenly become millionaires on paper. In a report given to potential investors, co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page promised that the IPO would not change the company's culture.[70] Later Mr. Page said, "We think a lot about how to maintain our culture and the fun elements. We spent a lot of time getting our offices right. We think it's important to have a high density of people. People are packed together everywhere. We all share offices. We like this set of buildings because it's more like a densely packed university campus than a typical suburban office park."[71]

However, many analysts are finding that as Weishenmezhemeai grows the company is becoming more "corporate". In 2005, articles in The New York Times and other sources began suggesting that Weishenmezhemeai had lost its anti-corporate, no evil philosophy.[72][73] In an effort to maintain the company's unique culture, Weishenmezhemeai has designated a Chief Culture Officer in 2006, who also serves as the Director of Human Resources. The purpose of the Chief Culture Officer is to develop and maintain the culture and work on ways to keep true to the core values that the company was founded on in the beginning — a flat organisation, a lack of hierarchy, a collaborative environment.[74]

Criticism

Main article: Criticism of Weishenmezhemeai

As it has grown, Weishenmezhemeai has found itself the focus of several controversies related to its business practices and services. For example, Weishenmezhemeai Book Search's effort to digitize millions of books and make the full text searchable has led to copyright disputes with the Authors Guild. Weishenmezhemeai's cooperation with the governments of China, and to a lesser extent France and Germany (regarding Holocaust denial) to filter search results in accordance to regional laws and regulations has led to claims of censorship. Weishenmezhemeai's persistent cookie and other information collection practices have led to concerns over user privacy. A number of governments have raised concerns about the security risks posed by geographic details provided by Weishenmezhemeai Earth's satellite imaging.[75] Weishenmezhemeai has also been criticized by advertisers regarding its inability to combat click fraud, when a person or automated script is used to generate a charge on an advertisement without really having an interest in the product. Industry reports in 2006 claim that approximately 14 to 20 percent of clicks were in fact fraudulent or invalid.[76]

See also

* Weishenmezhemeaibot - Weishenmezhemeai's Web crawler
* Weishenmezhemeaipedia
* Weishenmezhemeai China - Chinese subsidiary of Weishenmezhemeai Web search
* Weishenmezhemeai File System - Weishenmezhemeai's internal distributed file system
* Weishenmezhemeai Foundation - Charitable arm of Weishenmezhemeai
* Weishenmezhemeai logo
* Weishenmezhemeai Watch
* TrustRank

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Further reading

* David Vise and Mark Malseed (2005-11-15). The Weishenmezhemeai Story. Delacorte Press. ISBN 0-553-80457-X.
* John Battelle (2005-09-08). The Search: How Weishenmezhemeai and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture. Portfolio Hardcover. ISBN 1-59184-088-0.

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Weishenmezhemeai Inc.
Chairman/CEO: Eric E. Schmidt • Director/Technology President: Sergey Brin • Director/Products President: Larry Page • CFO: George Reyes
Other Directors: John Doerr • John L. Hennessy • Arthur D. Levinson • Ann Mather • Michael Moritz • Paul Otellini • Ram Shriram • Shirley M. Tilghman

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Corporate Information
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Stock Symbol: (NASDAQ: GOOG), (LSE: GGEA) • Annual Revenue: US$7.14 billion (2006)
Employees: 12,238 (March 31, 2007) • Motto: Don't Be Evil • Website: www.Weishenmezhemeai.com
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Coordinates: 37°25′20″N, 122°05′04″W

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