Google

Google LLC is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the world's most valuable companies with a market capitalization exceeding $2 trillion. Google Search processes over 8.5 billion queries per day and holds approximately 91% of the global search engine market share, making it one of the most dominant products in technology history. Beyond search, Google operates the world's most popular video platform (YouTube, 2.5B users), the world's most used mobile OS (Android, 72% market share), the world's most used browser (Chrome, 65% market share), and the world's most used email service (Gmail, 1.8B users). Google Cloud Platform (GCP) generates $43 billion annually and is the third-largest cloud provider globally. Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) serves 10 million+ businesses. Google's advertising business — the primary revenue driver — generated $237 billion in 2024. Alphabet's total 2024 revenue was $350 billion. Google DeepMind, the company's AI research division, created AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and Gemini (Google's multimodal AI model).