Google has its origins in , backrub, a research project, that was begun, in 1996 by Larry page, and sergeybrin, when they both were phd student, at Stanford university in Stanford, California

Google was founded on September 4 1998, by computer scientists larry page, and sergy brin, together they own about, 14% of listed shares, and control 56% of his stock holder voting power through super voting stock, a book that has used the word googol, to describe a number with 100 zeros, when google founders were looking at the name, of the company , they decided on the word googol

The google headquartered at 1600 amphitheatre parkway , Mountain View, California (USA) google parent company alphabet inc is one the five big tech companies along side with amazon, apple inc, meta platforms and Microsoft