What is Google LLC?
Google is a search engine founded by Larry Page and Sergei Brin in 1996 while at MIT. Today It is the world’s largest search engine through its link-based semantic collection of almost the entire World Wide Web. Google is the largest generator of web traffic and revenue of any channel or website. Google Ad‘s revenues, which represent just a fraction of the traffic it generates, dwarf’s its rivals and other lead generation websites with revenues of over $250bn – making it the most successful stock in US history. Google generates more Ad revenue than Meta (owner of facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, Twitter, and LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft, Revenue: $56b) combined.
Origins of the name “Google”
Google is derived from “Googol” which is the name for a very large number – 1.0 × 10^100 – representing the World Wide Web (www) and the vast number of pages it would need to crawl and index.
Alphabet Inc
Google LLC – the parent limited liability corporation entity that owns “Google.com”, the search engine, is owned by parent company Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) which still trades under the old Google stock ticker “GOOG”.
