Google has moved from a search engine to a powerhouse ad placement company and is pushing the edges of growth in mobile computing as well as several other markets.

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Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: search engine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.

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Already, the search engine has spawned businesses such as search-engine marketing and optimization, or Web arbitragers, and companies that live by serving Google's voracious computing needs (see: " The Search Industrial Complex").

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