About Google
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Google's logo since 2015
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Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, in August 2014
Formerly called
Google Inc. (1998–2017)
Type
Subsidiary
Industry
Internet
Software
Computer hardware
Founded September 4, 1998; 19 years ago in Menlo Park, California, U.S.[1][2]
Founders
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Headquarters Googleplex, Mountain View, California, U.S.[3]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Sundar Pichai (CEO)
Ruth Porat (CFO)
Products List of Google products
Number of employees
85,050[4] (Q1 2018)
Parent Alphabet Inc. (2015–present)
Subsidiaries List of subsidiaries
Website google.com
History
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.[11]
While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites.[12] They called this new technology PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site.[13][14]
Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.[15][16][17] Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word "googol",[18][19] the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.[20] Originally, Google ran under Stanford University's website, with the domains google.stanford.edu[21] and z.stanford.edu.[22]
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,[23] and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki[11]) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.
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