Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin named the search engine they built "Google," a play on the word "googol," the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The name reflects the immense volume of information that exists, and the scope of Google's mission: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, and in 1998 Google was born

Todays Google offers a wide range of products and services including advertising, application devlopment, mobile phone technology and 3D design software.