History of Google: Who Founded Google and in What Year

"Who is the founder of Google?" I asked one of my colleagues the other day. Feeling slightly embarrassed that she didn’t know the answer, she just smiled back and said she didn’t know. Your favorite search engine which you use almost everyday! I bet many of you don’t know the answer either! Ever wondered who founded Google? Here is the answer: Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, while they were Ph.D. students at the Stanford University in California. Google began as a research project by these two Ph.D. students in January 1936. The company Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4th, 1998. The company name Google has its origin in the word Googol, which is the term for the number that represents ‘one followed by hundred zeros’. The initial public offering for Google took place on 19 August, 2004 and raised a whopping US $1.67 billion, making Google worth US $23 billion.

Google Inc. today, is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services. The Google headquarters known as The Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. Since Google was founded, the company has continued to grow through a series of new product developments, acquisitions, and partnerships. Google is popular for its applications like Gmail, Orkut, Google Adsense and Google Adwords.

So the next time someone questions your knowledge about the history of Google and asks you questions like who are the Google founders and who owns Google Inc, smile because you know all the answers now!