Fortune 500 rank: 92
2010 profit: $8.5 billion
The search giant advanced on several fronts, including its free Android mobile operating system, which, depending on how you parse the numbers, remains second only to Apple's iOS. But profit growth came largely, as it always does for Google, from advertising sales.
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