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Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and is now a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It is considered one of the biggest tech companies and offers many internet services including search, maps, gmail, photos and youtube. Google has expanded beyond its core search engine into hardware, mobile operating systems, web browsers and internet carrier services. It owns many popular websites and brands and is one of the most valuable companies in the world, though it has also faced criticism around privacy, taxes and antitrust issues.

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Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and is now a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It is considered one of the biggest tech companies and offers many internet services including search, maps, gmail, photos and youtube. Google has expanded beyond its core search engine into hardware, mobile operating systems, web browsers and internet carrier services. It owns many popular websites and brands and is one of the most valuable companies in the world, though it has also faced criticism around privacy, taxes and antitrust issues.

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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 Five companies 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.

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