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Google LLC
FormerlyGoogle Inc. (1998–2017)
TypeSubsidiary
Industry
FoundedSeptember 4, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-09-04)[a] in Menlo Park, California, United States
Founders
HeadquartersGoogleplex,
Mountain View, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Products
ParentAlphabet Inc.
Subsidiaries
ASN
  • 15169
Websiteabout.google
Footnotes
[5][6][7][8]

Google LLC (/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/ ⓘ, GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).[9] It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC,[10] and is one of the world's most valuable brands.[11][12][13] Google's parent company Alphabet Inc. has been described as a Big Tech company.

Google was founded in 1998 by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's internet properties and interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google in 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. In 2019, Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet.[14]

After the success of its original service, Google Search (often known simply as "Google"), the company has rapidly grown to offer a multitude of products and services. These products address a wide range of use cases, including email (Gmail), navigation and mapping (Waze, Maps, and Earth), cloud computing (Cloud), web navigation (Chrome), video sharing (YouTube), productivity (Workspace), operating systems (Android and ChromeOS), cloud storage (Drive), language translation (Translate), photo storage (Photos), videotelephony (Meet), smart home (Nest), smartphones (Pixel), wearable technology (Pixel Watch and Fitbit), music streaming (YouTube Music), video on demand (YouTube TV), AI (Google Assistant and Gemini), machine learning APIs (TensorFlow), AI chips (TPU), and more. Many of these products and services are dominant in their respective industries, as is Google Search. Discontinued Google products include gaming (Stadia),[15] Glass, Google+, Reader, Play Music, Nexus, Hangouts, and Inbox by Gmail.[16][17] Google's other ventures outside of internet services and consumer electronics include quantum computing (Willow, Google Quantum AI), self-driving cars (Waymo), and transformer models (Google DeepMind).[18]

Google Search and YouTube are the two most-visited websites worldwide, followed by Facebook, Instagram, and ChatGPT. Google is the largest provider of search engines, mapping and navigation applications, email services, office suites, online video platforms, photo and cloud storage, mobile operating systems, web browsers, machine learning frameworks, and AI virtual assistants in the world as measured by market share.[19] On the list of the most valuable brands, Google is ranked second by Forbes as of January 2022,[20] and fourth by Interbrand as of February 2022.[21] The company has received criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, censorship, search neutrality, antitrust, and abuse of its monopoly position.[22]

History

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Early years

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2003

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California, United States.[23][24][25] The project initially involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the original lead programmer who wrote much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was officially founded as a company;[26][27] Hassan went on to pursue a career in robotics and founded the company Willow Garage in 2006.[28][29]

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Google was incorporated on September 4, 1998; however, since 2002, the company has celebrated its anniversaries on various days in September, most frequently on September 27.[1][2][3] The shift in dates reportedly happened to celebrate index-size milestones in tandem with the birthday.[4]

References

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  1. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Alex (September 4, 2014). "Google Used to Be the Company That Did 'Nothing But Search'". Time. Archived from the original on October 16, 2019. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ "When is Google's birthday – and why are people confused?". The Daily Telegraph. September 27, 2019. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022.
  3. ↑ Griffin, Andrew (September 27, 2019). "Google birthday: The one big problem with the company's celebratory doodle". The Independent. Archived from the original on January 12, 2021. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  4. ↑ Wray, Richard (September 5, 2008). "Happy birthday Google". The Guardian. Archived from the original on January 12, 2021. Retrieved September 27, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Company – Google". January 16, 2015. Archived from the original on January 16, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Claburn, Thomas (September 24, 2008). "Google Founded By Sergey Brin, Larry Page... And Hubert Chang?!?". InformationWeek. UBM plc. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Locations – Google Jobs". Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2013.
  8. ↑ Cite error: The named reference Wakabayashi2019 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ↑ Condon, Stephanie (May 7, 2019). "Google I/O: From 'AI first' to AI working for everyone". ZDNet. Archived from the original on April 2, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  10. ↑ Jack, Simon (November 21, 2017). "Google – powerful and responsible?". BBC News. Archived from the original on March 29, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  11. ↑ McCormick, Rich (June 2, 2016). "Elon Musk: There's only one AI company that worries me". The Verge. Archived from the original on March 29, 2022. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Justice Department Sues Monopolist Google For Violating Antitrust Laws". U.S. Department of Justice. October 20, 2020. Archived from the original on January 20, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Land of the Giants: The Titans of Tech". CNN+. Archived from the original on April 17, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2022.
  14. ↑ Feiner, Lauren (December 3, 2019). "Larry Page steps down as CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai to take over". CNBC. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved June 16, 2021.
  15. ↑ Peters, Jay; Cranz, Alex (September 30, 2022). "Google is shutting down Stadia in January 2023 - The Verge". Archived from the original on October 10, 2024. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
  16. ↑ Brady, Heather; Kirk, Chris (March 15, 2013). "The Google Graveyard". Slate. Archived from the original on March 16, 2013. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  17. ↑ Booker, Logan (March 17, 2013). "Google Graveyard Does Exist". gizmodo. Archived from the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Inside X, Google's top-secret moonshot factory". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Archived from the original on May 19, 2022. Retrieved May 17, 2022.
  19. ↑ Hanief, Mohammad (April 7, 2023). "How Google has made our life easy". Greater Kashmir. Archived from the original on December 23, 2023. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  20. ↑ Swant, Marty. "The World's Valuable Brands". Forbes. Archived from the original on October 18, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  21. ↑ "Best Global Brands". Interbrand. Archived from the original on February 1, 2022. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
  22. ↑ Barakat, Matthew; Liedtke, Michale (August 5, 2024). "Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules". Associated Press. Archived from the original on August 5, 2024. Retrieved August 6, 2024.
  23. ↑ "How we started and where we are today – Google". about.google. Archived from the original on May 7, 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
  24. ↑ Brezina, Corona (2013). Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and Google (1st ed.). New York: Rosen Publishing Group. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-4488-6911-4. LCCN 2011039480.
  25. ↑ "Our history in depth". Google Company. Archived from the original on April 1, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  26. ↑ Fisher, Adam (July 10, 2018). "Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company that Changed Everything". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  27. ↑ McHugh, Josh (January 1, 2003). "Google vs. Evil". Wired. Archived from the original on June 2, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
  28. ↑ "Willow Garage Founder Scott Hassan Aims To Build A Startup Village". IEEE Spectrum. September 5, 2014. Archived from the original on August 24, 2019. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  29. ↑ D'Onfro, Jillian (February 13, 2016). "How a billionaire who wrote Google's original code created a robot revolution". Business Insider. Archived from the original on August 24, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2019.
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