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 Four technology companies alongside Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.




Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock.





Google now it is a company and provides Web-based products:
1) Search tools
2) Advertising services
3) Communication and publishing tools
4) Development tools
5) Security tools
6) Map-related products
7) Statistical tools
8) Operating systems
9) Desktop applications
10) Mobile applications
11) Mobile standalone applications
12) Hardware
13) Services
14) The start-up company developed a product called Earth Viewer that gave a three-dimensional view of the Earth. Google renamed the service to Google Earth in 2005.
15) In October 2006, Google announced that it had acquired the video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock