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Google is a massive technology company that helps people find information.

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Google 2015 logo

It focuses on many things like search engines, email, and artificial intelligence. Some people even call it the most powerful company in the world.

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Google page brin

It is part of a larger group called Alphabet Inc. This group is often called a Big Tech company. Google makes many tools that people use every single day. These tools include things like Gmail for messages and YouTube for watching videos.

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Google 2013 logo

Everything started with a new way to search the web.

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Google1998

Old search engines just counted how many times a word appeared on a page. Larry Page and Sergey Brin thought of a better way called PageRank. This system looked at the relationships between different websites. It checked how many pages linked back to a specific site. This helped the computer decide which websites were the most important. By looking at these links, the search engine could find the best answers. This clever way of working helped Google grow very quickly.

Google began as a research project in January 1996.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin were students at Stanford University in California. They used a friend's garage as their very first office in 1998. A person named Scott Hassan helped write much of the original code. In 1998, they received $100,000 from an investor named Andy Bechtolsheim. This money helped them officially start the company. Later, they raised more money from people like Jeff Bezos. By 1999, they had enough to open a shop in Menlo Park.

As the company grew, it moved to new places.

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Schmidt-Brin-Page-20080520

In 2003, they moved to a large complex in Mountain View, California. People call this place the Googleplex. This name is a play on the word googolplex. In 2004, the company went public through an initial public offering. This means anyone could buy shares of the company. Sundar Pichai became the CEO of Google in 2015. He replaced Larry Page, who became the leader of Alphabet. In 2019, Pichai became the leader of both companies.

Today, you might use Google without even thinking about it.

You might use Chrome to browse the web or Maps to find a path. Many people use Android on their smartphones to run apps. You can even use Google Assistant to talk to your devices. Google also works on futuristic things like self-driving cars with Waymo. They even study quantum computing with a project called Willow. It is a huge part of how our modern world works.

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