Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core

web search engine. The company offers online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. Google leads the development of the Android mobileoperating system, as well as [12] the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system, found on specialized netbooks called Chromebooks. Google has increasingly become a hardware company with its partnerships with major electronics manufacturers on its high-end Nexus series of devices and [13] its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May 2012, as well as the construction of fiber-optic [14] infrastructure in Kansas City as part of the Google Fiberbroadband Internet service project.