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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products,
 which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
 It is considered one of the Big Five technology companies alongside Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook.[10][11][12]

Google was founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D.
 students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of 
its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting s
tock. They incorporated Google as a California privately held company on September 4, 1
998, in California. Google was then reincorporated in Delaware on October 22, 2002.[13] An initia
l public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, 2004, and Google moved to its headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as
 a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google is Alphabet's leading subsidiary and will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page who became the CEO of Alphabet.

The company's rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acq
uisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine (Google Search). It offers services designed for work and productivity (Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides), email (Gmail), scheduling and time management (Google Calendar), cloud storage (Google Drive), ins
tant messaging and video chat (Duo, Hangouts), language translation (Google Translate), mapping and navigation (Google Maps, Waze, Google Earth, Street View), video sharing (YouTube), note-taking (Google Keep), and photo organi
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ng and editing (Google Photos). The company leads the development of the Android mobile op
erating system, the Google Chrome web browser, and Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser. Google has moved
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ncreasingly into hardware; from 2010 to 2015, it partnered with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its Nexus devices, and it released multiple hardware produ

cts in October 2016, including the Google Pixel smartphone, Google Home smart speaker, Google Wi
fi mesh wireless router, and Google Daydream virtual reality headset. Google has also experimented with becoming an Internet carrier (Google Fiber, Google Fi, and Google Station).[14]

Google.com is the most visited website in the world.[15] Several other Google services also fig
ure in the top 100 most visited websites, including YouTube and Blogger. Google was the most val
uable brand in the world as of 2017,[16] but has received significant criticism involving issues such as privacy concerns, tax avoidance,
 antitrust, censorship, and search neutrality.