Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include search engines, online advertising technologies, cloud computing, software, and hardware. The company was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. stude
nts at Stanford University in California. Google's flagship product, the Google Search, is the most widely used web-based search engine. Google also offers a wide range of other products and services such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive, YouTube and Google Assistant. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.