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Google
KindCompany
Founded1998
StatusAlive
FoundersBrin & Page
FieldSearch
Sourceabout.google ↗

A Stanford research project turned into the largest single funding event in software history — PageRank, then ads, then most of the infrastructure industry. Now Alphabet's core.

Created by Sergey Brin Larry Page
Created Android HTC Dream / T-Mobile G1 Go ChromeOS Dart
Notable people Sergey Brin Larry Page

Brin and Page's BackRub crawler ran on Stanford scavenged hardware until it crashed the network; Google Inc. was incorporated September 1998 on a $100,000 check from Andy Bechtolsheim. PageRank — links as citations — outranked every keyword engine immediately.

AdWords (2000) turned relevance into revenue; the 2004 IPO, Android (2005), Chrome (2008), and infrastructure dominance followed. Alphabet was formed 2015; search advertising still funds the rest.

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Sources

  1. about.google/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google