!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is an [United States] multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related [services] and [products]. 


These include online [advertising] technologies, search, [Cloud computing], [software], and [hardware]. [{$pagename}] was founded in [1998|Year 1998] by [Larry Page] and [Sergey Brin] while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares, and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated [{$pagename}] as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. 

An initial public offering (IPO) took place on August 19, [2004|Year 2004], and [{$pagename}] moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex. In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called [Alphabet Inc]. Google, Alphabet's leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. Upon completion of the restructure, Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google; he replaced Larry Page, who became CEO of Alphabet.

[{$pagename}] is a [Provider of services] including:
* [Social Identity Provider] ([Social Login])
* Part of the [Social Websites]


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* [#1] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google|Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2014-12-18-