Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

When was Google launched to the public?

On August 19, 2004, Google became a public company via an initial public offering. At that time Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt agreed to work together at Google for 20 years, until the year 2024.

What was the first search on Google?

Google started out as BackRub

Working from their dorm rooms in 1996, Page and Brin first built a search engine quirkily called BackRub. This algorithm used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web.