Google LLC is an American international innovation firm that specializes in Internet-related product and services, which include online advertising and marketing modern technologies, an internet search engine, cloud computer, software application, and also equipment. It is thought about one of the Big 4 modern technology companies along with Amazon, Apple, as well as Microsoft.

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and also Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. pupils at Stanford University in California. Together they own around 14 percent of its shares as well as control 56 percent of the stockholder ballot power via supervoting supply. They incorporated Google as a California independently held firm on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. A going public (IPO) occurred on August 19, 2004, and also Google transferred to its head office in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google revealed strategies to reorganize its different rate of interests as a corporation called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and also will certainly remain to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was selected CEO of Google, changing Larry Page that ended up being the CEO of Alphabet.

The company's fast development because unification has actually caused a chain of items, acquisitions, and also collaborations past Google's core search engine (Google Look). It provides solutions made for work and performance (Google Docs, Google Sheets, as well as Google Slides), e-mail (Gmail), scheduling and time monitoring (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), instant messaging and video conversation (Duo, Hangouts, Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and also navigating (Google Maps, Waze, Google Planet, Road Sight), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Maintain), as well as photo arranging as well as editing (Google Photos). The company leads the growth of the Android mobile os, the Google Chrome internet browser, and also Chrome OS, a light-weight os based on the Chrome web browser. Google has actually relocated significantly right into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with significant electronics suppliers in the manufacturing of its Nexus devices, and it launched numerous equipment items in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google House smart speaker, Google Wi-fi fit together cordless router, and also Google Vision virtual reality headset. Google has actually also experimented with ending up being a Net service provider (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and also Google Terminal). Google.com is one of the most checked out internet site in the world.Several various other Google solutions additionally figure in the top 100 most visited sites, including YouTube and also Blog owner. Google was the most important brand worldwide in 2017 (exceeded by Amazon), however has actually gotten significant criticism involving concerns such as personal privacy problems, tax obligation evasion, antitrust, censorship, and also search nonpartisanship.