Google

Google was founded on 04/09/1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in Menlo Park, California, United States, emerging from a research project at Stanford University focused on improving how information is organized and retrieved on the internet. The company’s core innovation, PageRank, ranked web pages based on the number and quality of links, helping deliver more relevant search results compared to earlier search engines. In its early years, Google focused primarily on search, but it expanded rapidly into other services and products. The company launched AdWords in 2000, establishing a scalable online advertising platform that became its main source of revenue. In 2004, Google introduced Gmail with 1GB of storage, followed by Google Maps and Google Earth in 2005. The company acquired YouTube in 2006 and announced the Android operating system in 2007, which later became the world’s most widely used mobile platform. Google continued diversifying with products such as the Chrome browser in 2008 and cloud-based ser