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{{Infobox company
| name = Google LLC
| logo = Google 2015 logo.svg
| logo_size = 250px
| logo_alt = Each letter of "Google" is colored (from left to right) in blue, red, yellow, blue, green, and red.
| logo_caption = Logo {{as of|2015|lc=y|since=y}}
| image = Googleplex HQ (cropped).jpg
| image_size = 250px
| image_caption = Google's headquarters, the [[Googleplex]]
| former_name = Google Inc. (1998–2017)
| type = [[Subsidiary]] ([[Limited liability company|LLC]])
| industry = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Internet]]
| [[Cloud computing]]
| [[Computer software]]
| [[Computer hardware]]
| [[Artificial intelligence]]
| [[Advertising]]
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1998|09|04}}{{efn|Google was originally incorporated on September 4, 1998, however, since 2002, the company has celebrated its anniversaries on various days in September, most frequently on September 27.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://time.com/3250807/google-anniversary/ |title=Google Used to Be the Company That Did 'Nothing But Search' |first=Alex |last=Fitzpatrick |date=September 4, 2014 |website=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/09/27/when-is-googles-21st-birthday-doodle/ |title=When is Google's birthday – and why are people confused? |author=Telegraph Reporters |date=September 27, 2019 |website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/google-birthday-surprise-spinner-date-problem-start-company-a7968951.html |title=Google birthday: The one big problem with the company's celebratory doodle |first=Andrew |last=Griffin |date=September 27, 2019 |website=[[The Independent]]}}</ref> The shift in dates reportedly happened to celebrate index-size milestones in tandem with the birthday.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/05/google.mediabusiness |title=Happy birthday Google |first=Richard |last=Wray |date=September 5, 2008 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>}} in [[Menlo Park, California|Menlo Park]], California, United States
| founders = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Larry Page]]
| [[Sergey Brin]]
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| hq_location = {{Unbulleted list|[[Googleplex|1600 Amphitheatre Parkway]], [[Mountain View, California]], United States|[[Queenstown, Singapore|Queenstown]], [[Singapore]] ([[Asia-Pacific]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://careers.google.com/locations/sing/|title=Singapore|website=Google|access-date=9 February 2021|quote=As our Asia-Pacific headquarters, our Singapore office plays a pivotal role in our global strategy to reach millions of users around the region.}}</ref>}}
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list
| [[Sundar Pichai]] ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
| [[Ruth Porat]] ([[Chief financial officer|CFO]])
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| products = [[List of Google products|List of products]]
| parent = [[Alphabet Inc.]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.google.com/|google.com}}
| footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116073513/https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/company/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 16, 2015 |title=Company – Google |date=January 16, 2015 |access-date=September 13, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Thomas |last=Claburn |title=Google Founded By Sergey Brin, Larry Page... And Hubert Chang?!? |url=https://www.informationweek.com/applications/google-founded-by-sergey-brin-larry-page-and-hubert-chang!/d/d-id/1072309 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628231125/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/210603678 |website=[[InformationWeek]] |publisher=[[UBM plc]] |date=September 24, 2008 |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |access-date=January 22, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/ |title=Locations&nbsp;— Google Jobs |access-date=September 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130930200600/http://www.google.com/about/jobs/locations/ |archive-date=September 30, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
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'''Google LLC''' is an American [[Multinational corporation|multinational]] [[technology company]] that specializes in [[Internet]]-related services and products, which include [[online advertising|online advertising technologies]], a [[search engine]], [[cloud computing]], software, and hardware. It is considered one of the [[Big Tech|Big Five]] technology companies in the U.S. [[information technology]] industry, alongside [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]], [[Facebook, Inc.|Facebook]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], and [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.barrons.com/articles/ranking-the-big-four-internet-stocks-google-is-no-1-apple-comes-in-last-1503412102 |title=Ranking The Big Four Tech Stocks: Google Is No. 1, Apple Comes In Last |last=Rivas |first=Teresa |website=www.barrons.com |language=en-US |access-date=December 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228082808/https://www.barrons.com/articles/ranking-the-big-four-internet-stocks-google-is-no-1-apple-comes-in-last-1503412102 |archive-date=December 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-10-31/the-big-four-of-technology|title=The Big Four of Technology|last=Ritholtz|first=Barry|date=October 31, 2017|website=Bloomberg|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626024146/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-10-31/the-big-four-of-technology|archive-date=June 26, 2019|access-date=December 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/GAFA|title=What is GAFA (the big four)? - Definition from WhatIs.com|website=WhatIs.com|language=en|access-date=March 5, 2020}}</ref>

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 [[Preferred stock|supervoting]] stock. They incorporated Google as a California privately held company on September 4, 1998. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=02474131-5043839|title=Business Entity Filing|date=October 7, 2002|website=Business Search|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190814022055/https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/Document/RetrievePDF?Id=02474131-5043839|archive-date=August 14, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref> An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the [[Googleplex]]. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called [[Alphabet Inc.]] Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. [[Sundar Pichai]] was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. In 2021, the [[Alphabet Workers Union]] was founded, mainly composed of Google employees.<ref>{{cite web |title=Google employees are forming a union |url=https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/01/04/google-employees-are-forming-a-union/ |website=Android Police |access-date=25 January 2021 |date=4 January 2021}}</ref>

The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of 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|Duo]], [[Hangouts]], [[Google Chat|Chat]], and [[Google Meet|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 (service)|Blogger]]), note-taking ([[Google Keep]] and [[Jamboard|Google Jamboard]]), and photo organizing and editing ([[Google Photos]]). The company leads the development of the [[Android (operating system)|Android]] mobile operating system, the [[Google Chrome]] web browser, and [[Chrome OS]], a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has moved increasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its [[Google Nexus|Nexus]] devices, and it released multiple hardware products in October 2016, including the [[Pixel (smartphone)|Google Pixel]] line of smartphones, [[Google Home]] smart speaker, [[Google Wifi (router)|Google Wifi]] mesh wireless router, and [[Google Daydream]] virtual reality headset. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier ([[Google Fiber]], [[Google Fi]], and [[Google Station]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/27/13070922/google-station-public-wi-fi-india|title=Google Station is a new platform that aims to make public Wi-Fi better|last=Byford|first=Sam|date=September 27, 2016|website=The Verge|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903210758/https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/27/13070922/google-station-public-wi-fi-india|archive-date=September 3, 2017|access-date=May 22, 2018}}</ref>

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.<ref name=topsites>{{cite web | url=https://www.alexa.com/topsites | title=The top 500 sites on the web | publisher=[[Alexa Internet]]}}</ref>

Google was the most valuable brand in the world in 2017 (surpassed by Amazon),<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/worlds-most-valuable-brands-facebook-google-apple-amazon-a7556571.html |title=Google is now the world's most valuable brand |date=February 1, 2017 |work=The Independent |access-date=August 31, 2017 |language=en-GB |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831172223/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/worlds-most-valuable-brands-facebook-google-apple-amazon-a7556571.html |archive-date=August 31, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> but has received significant [[Criticism of Google|criticism]] involving issues such as [[Privacy concerns regarding Google|privacy concerns]], tax avoidance, antitrust, [[Censorship by Google|censorship]], and [[search neutrality]].

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