The Evolution and Development of Google

Google is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded 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. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.