Google LLC is an American multinational technology business that concentrates on Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising modern technologies, a search engine, cloud computer, software application, as well as equipment. It is considered one of the Big Four technology business together with Amazon.com, Apple, as well as Microsoft.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page as well as Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. pupils at Stanford University in California. Together they have around 14 percent of its shares as well as control 56 percent of the investor ballot power with supervoting supply. They included Google as a California independently held firm on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was after that reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. A going public (IPO) happened on August 19, 2004, as well as Google relocated to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google introduced strategies to reorganize its different interests as a corporation called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary as well as will remain to be the umbrella business for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was designated CEO of Google, changing Larry Page that became the CEO of Alphabet.

The company's rapid growth considering that unification has activated a chain of products, procurements, and partnerships beyond Google's core online search engine (Google Look). It supplies solutions created for work as well as productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and also Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling as well as time monitoring (Google Calendar), cloud storage space (Google Drive), immediate messaging as well as video chat (Duo, Hangouts, Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping as well as navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Planet, Road Sight), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Maintain), as well as photo organizing and also editing (Google Photos). The company leads the growth of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and also Chrome OS, a light-weight operating system based upon the Chrome browser. Google has relocated progressively right into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronic devices makers in the manufacturing of its Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel mobile phone, Google Residence clever audio speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router, and Google Vision virtual reality headset. Google has actually additionally trying out ending up being an Internet service provider (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Terminal). Google.com is the most visited web site in the world.Several various other Google services additionally figure in the leading 100 most gone to websites, consisting of YouTube as well as Blog writer. Google was one of the most important brand name worldwide in 2017 (exceeded by Amazon), yet has actually gotten substantial criticism entailing problems such as privacy problems, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality.