Published: 17 February 2015
ID: G00264110
Analyst(s): Andrew Neff, Alexa Bona, Carsten Casper, Kimberly Harris-Ferrante, David Smith, Alistair Newton, Tiffani Bova, Brian Blau, Frances O'Brien, Andrew Frank , Tom Austin, Daniel O'Connell, Mark Hung, Hanns Koehler-Kruener, Lydia Leong, Isabelle Durand, Ray Valdes, Yefim Natis, Chris Silva, Roberta Cozza, Jeffrey Mann
Google's progress continues. Strategy, marketing, infrastructure, platform and application services are all advancing. It leads in Web technology. Its "heroic" engineering culture energizes innovation and diversification. "Doing business with Google" limitations drive a Caution rating on support.
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