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Larry Page and Sergey Brin began their research project in January 1996 while they were PhD students at Stanford University. The company officially received its initial funding through a check from Andy Bechtolsheim in August 1998.
The name Google was chosen because it is a misspelling of googol, which represents one followed by one hundred zeros. This term reflects the massive scale of information the search engine aims to organize.
Sundar Pichai replaced Larry Page as CEO of Google in 2015 and took over as CEO of Alphabet Inc on the 3rd of December 2019. Eric Schmidt served as chairman and CEO starting in 2001 before this leadership transition occurred.
Forty-six percent of profit came from clicks amounting to US$109,652 million in 2017. AdMob, AdSense, and DoubleClick AdExchange form three principal methods for revenue generation that drove these figures.
The European Union imposed a record fine on the 27th of June 2017 for promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results. A €2.95 billion fine was issued in 2025 for abusing dominance in ad exchange practices.