# Google

Google| The logo used for Google since 2026 |
| Google's headquarters, the Googleplex |
| Formerly | Google Inc. (1998–2017) |
| Company type | Subsidiary (LLC) |
| Industry | * Advertising
* Cloud computing
* Computer software
* Computer hardware
* Internet
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| Founded | 1995 (first prototype) 1997 (second prototype) September 4, 1998 (1998-09-04) (final launch) in Menlo Park, California, United States |
| Founders | * Larry Page
* Sergey Brin
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| Headquarters | 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | * Sundar Pichai (CEO)
* Ruth Porat (CFO)
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| Products | List of Google products |
| Number of employees | 114,296 (Q3 2019) |
| Parent | Independent (1997-2016) Alphabet Inc. (2016–present) |
| Website | google.com |
| **Footnotes / references** |

**Google** is an American multinational corporation from the United States. Known for creating and running one of the largest search engines on the World Wide Web, also known as the (WWW). Every day more than a billion people use it. Google's headquarters (known as the "Googleplex") is in Mountain View, California, part of Silicon Valley. The motto of Google is "Do the right thing".

## Overview

Google's American website has an Alexa rank of 1, meaning it is the most widely visited website in the world. It is so widely known that people sometimes use the word "google" as a verb that means "to search for something on Google". By June 2004, Google had 4.28 billion web pages on its database, 880 million pictures and 845 million Usenet messages—six billion things. Because more than half of people on the web use it, "google" has also been used to mean "to search the web". Most importantly, Google created the Google Gnome Game in June of 2018.

## Google Chrome and Google Search

Google has a search engine called Google Search, and a browser called Google Chrome (or Chrome for short). Google Search can find pictures, videos, news, Usenet newsgroups, and things to buy online. Google Search is the default search engine for Chrome. Google also has an open-source browser called Chromium, which Chrome is based on.

## History

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University, USA, started BackRub in early 1996. They made it into a company, Google Inc, on September 7, 1998, at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California. In February 1999, the company moved to 165 University Ave, Palo Alto, California, and then later moved to Googleplex.

In September 2001, Google's rating system (PageRank, for saying which information is more helpful) got a U.S. Patent. The patent was to Stanford University, with Lawrence (Larry) Page as the inventor (the person who first had the idea). Google makes a percentage of its money through America Online and InterActiveCorp. It has a special group known as the Partner Solutions Organization (PSO) which helps make contracts, helps to make accounts better and gives engineering help.

Since June 1, 2016, Google has been owned by a holding company called Alphabet Inc.. That company has taken over some of Google's other projects, such as its driverless cars. It is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbols GOOG and GOOGL.

## Advertising

Google makes money by advertising. People or companies who want people to buy their product, service, or ideas give Google money, and Google shows an advertisement to people Google thinks will click on the advertisement.

Google only gets money when people click on the link, so it tries to know as much about people as possible to only show the advertisement to the "right people". It does this with Google Analytics, which sends data back to Google whenever someone visits a website. From this and other data, Google makes a profile about the person and then uses this profile to figure out which advertisements to show.

## Branding

The name "Google" is a play of the word *googol*. Milton Sirotta, nephew of U.S. mathematician Edward Kasner, made this word in 1937, for the number 1 followed by one hundred zeroes (10100).

Google uses this word because the company wants to make lots of stuff on the Web easy to find and use. Andy Bechtolsheim thought of the name. The name for Google's main office, the "Googleplex," is a play on a different, even bigger number, the "googolplex", which is 1 followed by one googol of zeroes 1010100.

## Products

* **Android**is an operating system for mobile devices and was originally made by Google as part of the Open Handset Alliance.
* **Google Adsense** is a free program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads and earn money.
* **Google Analytics** is the enterprise-class web analytics solution that gives one rich insights into his website traffic and marketing effectiveness.
* **Google Alerts** Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on one's choice of query or topic.
* **Google Allo** was software for discussing with other people live.
* **Google Gemini** is a chatbot and virtual assistant application built and installed into some Android devices running Android 9 and up.
* **Google Assistant** is a virtual assistant application built into Android devices.
* **Blogger** is a free tool that allows users to publish blogs on a Google website.
* **Google Books** lets people search for books.
* **Google Calendar** is an online calendar.
* **Google Chrome** is a web browser that Google made.
* **Google Classroom** is an online system for students. It was popular during COVID-19.
* **Google Docs** is an online document editor.
* **Google Drive** is an online file storing service.
* **Google Earth** is the 3D version of Google Maps with a digital globe.
* **Google Groups** is a place for users to discuss topics. Google bought Deja News in 2001 and made it into Google Groups.
* **Google Images** is an image search utility.
* **Google Maps** is a service from Google to provide satellite pictures and road maps for everywhere around the world.
* **Google News** is a facility which shows news stories from over 4,500 news sources. Google News Archives
* **Google Pay** is a way to pay online. Users can send money using their credit cards or bank accounts to other users.
* **Google Photos** is a software for organizing and editing photos.
* **Google Play** is a sector that has games, and other things.
* **Google Products** is a pack of Google software.
* **Google Search** is a search utility.
* **Google Shopping** lets the user find out about things for sale on the Internet.
* **Google Translate** is an online translation service. It can translate websites and text into other languages.
* **Google Sites** is a service for making websites.
* **Google Video** is a video search utility.
* **Gmail** is an e-mail service that Google started in 2004. It is called **Google Mail** in the United Kingdom and Germany. Users get free space to store e-mail.
* **Hangouts** is an instant messenger where one can talk to friends. It ended up shutting down on November 1, 2021.
* Sidewalk Labs
* **Tenor** is a search utility for GIF files
* **Waze** is a navigation service that gives driving directions.

## Gallery

* Google Logo
* Android Logo
* Chromebook Logo

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## Related pages

* Android
* Chromebook

**Notes**

## Other websites

* Corporate homepage
* The search engine
* Google at the Open Directory Project
* Google at CrunchBase