Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Find out where it all began. Read the history of how Google has grown since Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998.
Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg.
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, reports that it topped $100 billion in annual sales for the first time in Google's 20-year history.
Google is an American search engine company founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page and a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc. More than 70% of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience.
The history of Google spans 25 years, from its founding by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998 to its expansion into various products and services, such as Google Search, Google Ads, YouTube, Android, Google Workspace, and Chrome.
The very popular search engine called Google was invented by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The site was named after a googol —the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros—found in the book Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman.