Google Inc.is an American multinational corporation that provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits.The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while both attended Stanford University. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake. Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. The company's mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" and the company's unofficial slogan is "Don't beevil".In 2006, the company moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California.半年启用。
2004年8月19日，Google公司的股票在纳斯达克上市,创始之初，Google 官方的公司使命为“集成全球范围的信息，使人人皆可访问并从中受益”（to organize the world's information and make itRapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine. The company offers online productivity software including email, anoffice suite, and social networking. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. Google leads the development of the Android mobile operating system, as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system, found on specialized netbooks called Chromebooks. Google has increasingly become a hardware company with its partnerships with major electronics manufacturers on its high-end Nexus series of devices and its acquisition of Motorola Mobility in May 2012, as well as the construction of fiber-optic infrastructure in Kansas City as part of the Google Fiber broadband Internet service project.Google自创立开始的快速成长同时也带动了一系列的产品研发、并购事项与合作关系，而不仅仅是公司核心的网络搜索业务。
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.[25]While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites.[26] They called this new technology PageRank, where a website's relevance was determined by thenumber of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site. 1996年1月，身为加州斯坦福大学理学博士生的拉里·佩奇和谢尔盖·布卢姆在学校开始一项关于搜索的研究项目。
[30]区别于传统的搜索靠搜索字眼在页面中出现次数来进行结果排序的方法，两人开发了一个对网站之间的关系做精确分析的搜寻引擎。
[31]这个名为PageRank的引擎通过检查网页中的反向链接以评估站点的重要性，此引擎的精确度胜于当时的基本搜索技术Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol",[36][37]the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people.[38] Originally, Google ran under the StanfordUniversity website, with the domains and .[39][40] The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,[41]and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki[25]) garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee最初，佩奇和布卢姆将这个搜索引擎命名为…BackRub‟，直到后来改为…Google‟。
[34][35][36]这个新名字来源于一个数学大数googol（数字1后有100个0，即自然数10100）单词错误的拼写方式，[37][38]象征着为人们提供搜索海量优质信息的决心。
[39]Google搜索引擎在斯坦福大学的网站上启用，域名为。
[40]1997年9月15日，两人注册了Google域名。
[41]一年后，1998年9月4日，佩奇和布卢姆在加州门洛帕克一位朋友家的车库内创建了Google公司，克雷格·西尔弗斯坦（Craig Silverstein）——同为斯坦福大学的博士生——是公司的首位雇员。
Financing and initial public offeringGoogle's first production server. Google's production servers continue to be built with inexpensive hardware.[46]The first funding for Google was an August 1998 contribution of US$100,000 from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, given before Google was even incorporated.[47]Early in 1999, while still graduate students, Brin and Page decided that the search engine they had developed was taking up too much of their time from academic pursuits. They went to Excite CEO George Bell and offered to sell it to him for $1 million. He rejected the offer, and later criticized Vinod Khosla, one of Excite's venture capitalists, after he had negotiated Brin and Page down to $750,000. On June 7, 1999, a $25 million round of funding was announced,[48]with major investors includingthe venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital.[47] Google's initial public offering(IPO) took place five years later on August 19, 2004. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024.[49] The company offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share.[50][51]Shares were sold in a unique online auction format using a system built by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, underwriters for the deal.[52][53]The sale of $1.67 billion gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion.[54] The vast majority of the 271 million shares remained under the control of Google, and many Google employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo!, a competitor of Google, also benefited because it owned 8.4 million shares of Google before the IPO took place Google的第一台产品服务器，用廉价的硬件建造而成[44]佩奇和布卢姆在Google项目上最早获得投资是在1998年8月，Sun Microsystems的联合创始人安迪·贝托尔斯海姆给了两人一张十万美金的支票来用于搜索引擎的开发和运营，当时Google公司还尚未成立。