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This article is about the company. For the search engine, see Google Search. For other uses,
see Google (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with googol.

Google LLC

Logo since 2015

Google's headquarters, the Googleplex

Formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017)

Type Subsidiary (LLC)

Internet
Industry
Cloud computing
Computer software
Computer hardware
Artificial intelligence
Advertising

Founded September 4, 1998; 23 years

ago[a] in Menlo Park, California, United
 States

Founders Larry Page

Sergey Brin

Headquarters 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, 

Mountain View, California

, 

U.S.

Area served Worldwide

Key people Sundar Pichai (CEO)

Ruth Porat (CFO)

Products List of products

Revenue 66,001,000,000 United States dollar

(2014) 

Operating income 16,496,000,000 United States dollar

(2014) 

Net income 14,444,000,000 United States dollar

(2014) 

Total assets 131,133,000,000 United States dollar

(2014) 

Number of 139,995 (2021) 

employees

Parent Alphabet Inc.

Website google.com

Footnotes / references
[5][6][7][8]
Then-CEO, and former Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt with cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (left to
right) in 2008

Google LLC is an American multinational 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 Fivecompanies in the
American information technology industry, along with Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft.[9][10][11]
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D.
students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicly-listed
shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company
went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly-
owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding
company for Alphabet's Internet properties and interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of
Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. On
December 3, 2019, Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet. [12]
In 2021, the Alphabet Workers Union was founded, mainly composed of Google employees. [13]
The company's rapid growth since incorporation has included 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 (Google Duo, Google Chat, and Google 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 Jamboard), and photo organizing and editing (Google Photos). The company leads the
development of the Android mobile operating system, the Google Chrome web browser,
and Chrome OS (a lightweight, proprietary operating system based on the free and open-
source Chromium OS operating system). Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010
to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Google
Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware products in 2016, including the Google Pixel line of
smartphones, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wifi mesh wireless router. Google has also
experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber and Google Fi).
Google.com is the most visited website worldwide. Several other Google-owned websites also are
on the list of most popular websites, including YouTube and Blogger.[14] On the list of most valuable
brands, Google is ranked second by Forbes[15] and fourth by Interbrand.[16] It has received
significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance, censorship, search
neutrality, antitrust and abuse of its monopoly position.
 Contents

 1History

o 1.1Early years

o 1.2Growth

o 1.3Initial public offering

o 1.42012 onward

 2Products and services

o 2.1Search engine

o 2.2Advertising

o 2.3Consumer services

 2.3.1Web-based services

 2.3.2Software

 2.3.3Hardware

o 2.4Enterprise services

o 2.5Internet services

 3Corporate affairs

o 3.1Stock price performance and quarterly earnings

o 3.2Tax avoidance strategies

o 3.3Corporate identity

o 3.4Workplace culture

o 3.5Office locations

 3.5.1North America

 3.5.2Latin America

 3.5.3Europe

 3.5.4Asia Pacific
  3.5.5Africa & Middle East

o 3.6Infrastructure

o 3.7Environment

o 3.8Philanthropy

 4Criticism and controversies

o 4.1Anti-trust, privacy, and other litigation

 4.1.1Private browsing lawsuit

 5See also

 6Notes

 7References

 8Further reading

 9External links