Google

Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software, and online advertising technologies. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.

The first “Google doodle” in 1998 was intended to let visitors to the homepage know that Google’s minders were offline at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. There’s now a team of “doodlers” and we’ve posted more than 1,000 different doodles on homepages worldwide.

• Founded
  1998
• Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
• Incorporation
  September 4, 1998
• Initial public offering (NASDAQ)
  August 19, 2004
• Headquarters
  1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
  Mountain View
  CA 94043