Google is a web search engine that was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has offices in many countries around the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google provides many services in addition to its search engine, including email (Gmail), online storage (Google Drive), productivity tools (Googl