technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.[10][11][12]
Google, LLCGoogle's logo since 2015Google's headquarters, the GoogleplexFormerlyGoogle Inc. (1998–2017)TypeLimited liability company, SubsidiaryIndustry
FoundedSeptember 4, 1998; 22 years ago[a] in Menlo Park, California, U.S.Founders
Headquarters1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, U.S.Area servedWorldwideKey people
ProductsList of productsRevenue66,001,000,000 US dollar[5] (2014) Operating income16,496,000,000 US dollar[5] (2014) Net income14,444,000,000 United States dollar[5] (2014) Total assets131,133,000,000 US dollar[5] (2014) Number of employees114,096 (Q3 2019)ParentAlphabet Inc. (2015–present)SubsidiariesList of subsidiariesWebsitegoogle.comFootnotes / references
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Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a California privately held company on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002.[13] An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of Alphabet.
The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts, and Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, and Street View), podcast hosting (Google Podcasts), video sharing (YouTube), blog publishing (Blogger), note-taking (Google Keep, and Google Jamboard), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos). The company leads the d
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