The company whose founders included Larry Page and Sergey Brin is Google.
Page and Brin met as Stanford University graduate students and began developing a search project in 1996. Their research focused on ranking webpages by examining links between them, an approach that became the PageRank algorithm. The project was first known as BackRub before being renamed Google, a name inspired by “googol,” the mathematical term for 10¹⁰⁰.
Google was incorporated on September 4, 1998, after early financial backing helped turn the university research project into a company. Its search engine gained attention because its ranking system often produced more useful results than competing services. Google later expanded into advertising, email, maps, mobile software, cloud computing, hardware, and artificial intelligence.
A common mix-up is confusing Google with Alphabet. Alphabet became Google’s parent company in 2015, when Google was reorganized as its largest subsidiary. Page and Brin remained Google’s co-founders, while Sundar Pichai later became CEO of both Google and Alphabet.