Everything about Google's 20th Birthday



The Birth
September 4, 1998

Remember 1998? I suppose a significant number of people reading this probably weren't even born.

But, to put things in perspective: The world had just heard the name Monica Lewinsky, and Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" and Wyclef Jean's "Gone Till November" were among the top songs of the year. Saving Private Ryan and There's Something About Mary was in theaters. 

A long time ago, in other words. 

And that's why it's so impressive (to put it mildly) that Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two graduate students at Stanford who had no background in entrepreneurship, launched the company that became Google.

They incorporated on September 4, 1988, reportedly because investor Andy Bechtolsheim wrote them a $100,000 check, and they couldn't deposit it without an incorporated company.

They saw the future.  We probably didn't. So it goes.


Their Official 20th Aniversary Video



What is the date of Google's birthday?
September 27th

In recent years, the Google birthday is generally celebrated on September 27th. Expect to see a Google doodle on that date.

When was Google first established?
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.

Who is the headquarters of Google?
The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc... It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California, United States, near San Jose.

When was Google first used?
Originally the search engine used Stanford's website with the domain google.stanford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998, in their friend Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California.

Who founded Google and in what year?

"Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. 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 in 1998.”

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