Online Advertising Technologies Search Engine Cloud Computing Larry Page Sergey Brin Stanford University California Supervoting
Online Advertising Technologies Search Engine Cloud Computing Larry Page Sergey Brin Stanford University California Supervoting
services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud
computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 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
stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial 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.