Google is an American company that is most commonly known as a search engine.

Although the company made it’s name as a search engine, and the vast majority of its income comes from advertising because of this, it has branched out into a number of areas such as cloud computing, software and hardware.

Recently the company moved into the mobile hardware market by creating its first Google phone, called Pixel.

The cloud unit of the company is called Google Cloud, which contains things like G-Suite, the company’s productivity applications like Gmail and Google Drive.

How Google started ?

The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.

By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub.

Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey's mission 'to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.'

Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee no.16 and now CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things colourful continues to this day.)

Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the first 'Doodle' in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. 'Don't be evil' captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly – hiring engineers, building a sales team and introducing the first company dog, Yoshka. Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (aka'The Googleplex') in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.

Who started Google ?

Google, in full Google LLC formerly Google Inc. (1998–2017), American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc. More than 70 percent of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience. Its headquarters are in Mountain View, California.

Who is the Owner of Google now ?

In 2015, the company was restructured and got new leaders, and Google became a part of a big family called Alphabet Inc. So, who is the founder and owner of Google? 

Is Alphabet Inc. the owner of Google?

Alphabet Incorporation was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015, and it became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries.

The two co-founders of Google continued to remain as controlling shareholders, board members, and employees at Alphabet.

Who owns Google? Top 5 Alphabet shareholders 

1. Larry Page 

Larry Page is the co-founder of Google. He served as Alphabet's CEO until December 2019, when he stepped down. Larry Page is one of the richest people on earth - as of this writing, his net worth is $67.9B.

2. Sergey Brin 

Sergey Brin is originally from Moscow, but his family immigrated to the USA from the Soviet Union in 1979.

After receiving degrees (1993) in computer science and mathematics at the University of Maryland, he entered Stanford University’s graduate program, where he met Page, a fellow graduate student. They created Google in 1998, but they both became billionaires in 2004 when the company went public.

Sergey served as president of Alphabet until December 2019, and today, he is a board member of Alphabet. Brin is currently the shareholder with the second-largest stake of Alphabet Class C shares, holding approximately 38.9 million shares. According to Forbes, his net worth as of this writing is $66.1B.

3. Vanguard Group, Inc.

Vanguard Group holds about 22.6 million Class C shares of Alphabet .

4. BlackRock, Inc.

BlackRock holds approximately 20.0 million Class C shares of Alphabet.

5. T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

T. Rowe Price holds about 12.2 million Class C shares of Alphabet. 

Who is the CEO of Google?

Who is the CEO of Google 2020?

Sundar Pichai is. Sundar Pichai is an Indian-born American computer scientist and executive who is CEO of both Google, Inc. (2015– ), and its holding company, Alphabet Inc. (2019– ).

Pichai joined Google in 2004 as the head of product management and development. He initially worked on Google Toolbar, which enabled those using the Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers to easily access the Google search engine.

Over the next few years, he was directly involved in the development of Chrome, which was released to the public in 2008. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced the creation of Alphabet Inc., in August 2015, it came as no surprise to industry insiders that Pichai was named CEO of Google, which was reorganized as a subsidiary. In December 2019, he also was named CEO of Alphabet, replacing Page, who stepped down.

Milestones of Goolge :

2000: Google Begins Selling Ads to Create Personalized Experiences Every User Will Adore

2002: Google News Launches to Aggregate Articles Into Customizable Pages So We Only Have to Read What We Want

2003: Google Moves to Mountain View to Feed Its Employees Better Lunches Than Any Other Company

2004: Google Launches Gmail to Allow Us to Keep Our Emails Forever

2005: Google Maps Launches to Let You Explore the World, While Quickly Ending The Ability to Get Literally Anywhere Without It

2006: Google Acquires YouTube to Build a Lucrative Online Video Hub While Giving Everyone a Chance to Become Famous

2006: Google Translate Launches to Break Language Barriers, Connect Communities and Help Us Pass Freshman-Level French

2007: Google Launches Docs, Sheets and Slides to Help Us Procrastinate Collaborate With Our Friends Co-Workers in Real-Time

2008: Google Launches the Android Mobile Operating System to Establish a Foothold on the Mobile Communications Market

2008: Google Chrome Launches to Create a Better Web Experience and Further Expand the Openness of the Web

2011: Google+ Launches in an Attempt to Build a Social Network That Would Rival Facebook

2012: Google Launches Google Drive to Make All of Our Data Seamlessly Available to Us Wherever We Go

2013: Google Introduces the Chromebook Pixel to Inspire Users to Use the Cloud

2014: Google Glass Is Made Available to the Public in Attempt to Make Digital Information Available With a Glance

2015: Google Reorganizes as a Holding Company, Alphabet Inc., to Narrow Google’s Scope and Improve Transparency

2016: Google Home Launches to Compete Against the Amazon Echo

2018: Google Introduces Cloud AutoML Vision to Make Artificial Intelligence Accessible to All Businesses

What is Google's market share?

Ever since the introduction of Google Search in 1997, the worldwide market share of all search engines has been rather lopsided. Google has dominated the search engine market, maintaining an 92.05 percent market share as of February 2021. The majority of Google revenues are generated through advertising.