Mountain View, United States
Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University, built around their PageRank search algorithm. Headquartered at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California, Google has grown from a search engine into one of the world's largest technology companies, operating under parent company Alphabet Inc. since 2015. Its stated mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, and it now employs well over 180,000 people across products spanning search, cloud computing, mobile operating systems, and artificial intelligence.