· Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (a Moscow native) in Menlo Park
· The founders originally were Stanford students who started a little business in their garage with loans form their friends and families
· Google was a try to be a better search engine than Altavista, with new and improved mathematical algorithms
· The company grew up faster and had to move next to the University of Palo Alto, where Apple and Facebook are currently located
· Google is now a giant in the industry; its website hosts a lot of services, including Google Map, Google Images, Google Finance, Google Books, etc.
· Google stocks can now be traded at the Nasdaq, a technology-based stock market. It has been one of the most successful stocks in the last few years.
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