Google LLC is an American multinational modern technology business that focuses on Internet-related services and products, that include online advertising innovations, an internet search engine, cloud computer, software application, and also equipment. It is taken into consideration one of the Big Four modern technology companies along with Amazon, Apple, and also Microsoft.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. pupils at Stanford University in California. Together they possess about 14 percent of its shares and also control 56 percent of the shareholder ballot power with supervoting stock. They included Google as a California privately 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 moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced strategies to restructure its various rate of interests as a corporation called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will remain to be the umbrella firm for Alphabet's Internet passions. Sundar Pichai was selected CEO of Google, changing Larry Page who came to be the CEO of Alphabet.

The business's fast growth considering that consolidation has activated a chain of products, purchases, and partnerships past Google's core online search engine (Google Look). It supplies solutions designed for work and also performance (Google Docs, Google Sheets, as well as Google Slides), email (Gmail), organizing and also time management (Google Schedule), cloud storage (Google Drive), immediate messaging as well as video conversation (Duo, Hangouts, Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and also navigating (Google Maps, Waze, Google Planet, Road Sight), video clip sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Maintain), as well as image arranging as well as editing (Google Photos). The firm leads the growth of the Android mobile os, the Google Chrome web browser, and also Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome internet browser. Google has actually relocated increasingly right into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with significant electronic devices producers in the manufacturing of its Nexus devices, and it released several equipment products in October 2016, consisting of the Google Pixel mobile phone, Google House smart audio speaker, Google Wi-fi mesh wireless router, and also Google Musing virtual reality headset. Google has actually also experimented with coming to be a Net service provider (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station). Google.com is one of the most gone to web site in the world.Several other Google services additionally figure in the top 100 most gone to internet sites, including YouTube and also Blogger. Google was the most beneficial brand name in the world in 2017 (surpassed by Amazon.com), but has gotten substantial objection entailing issues such as privacy problems, tax obligation avoidance, antitrust, censorship, as well as search nonpartisanship.