Google LLC is an American multinational innovation company that concentrates on Internet-related services and products, that include online advertising modern technologies, an online search engine, cloud computing, software program, and equipment. It is considered one of the Big 4 modern technology firms together with Amazon.com, Apple, and 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. With each other they own about 14 percent of its shares as well as control 56 percent of the shareholder ballot power through supervoting stock. They integrated Google as a California privately held firm on September 4, 1998, in California. Google was after that reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002. An initial public offering (IPO) happened on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its head office in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google introduced plans to reorganize its various rate of interests as a corporation called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella business for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was selected CEO of Google, changing Larry Page who came to be the CEO of Alphabet.

The company's rapid development since incorporation has activated a chain of items, procurements, and partnerships past Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers solutions created for job and also performance (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time monitoring (Google Schedule), cloud storage space (Google Drive), immediate messaging as well as video conversation (Duo, Hangouts, Meet), language translation (Google Translate), mapping as well as navigating (Google Maps, Waze, Google Planet, Road Sight), video clip sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Maintain), and picture organizing as well as editing (Google Photos). The company leads the growth of the Android mobile os, the Google Chrome web browser, as well as Chrome OS, a lightweight os based upon the Chrome web browser. Google has actually relocated progressively into equipment; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with significant electronics makers in the manufacturing of its Nexus devices, as well as it launched numerous hardware products in October 2016, including the Google Pixel mobile phone, Google Residence smart audio speaker, Google Wifi fit together wireless router, as well as Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has actually also explore coming to be a Web service provider (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Terminal). Google.com is the most checked out web site in the world.Several various other Google solutions likewise figure in the top 100 most seen sites, consisting of YouTube and Blog writer. Google was one of the most valuable brand on the planet in 2017 (surpassed by Amazon), yet has gotten considerable objection involving concerns such as personal privacy problems, tax avoidance, antitrust, censorship, as well as search neutrality.