Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively. The Google search engine receives about a billion search requests per day. Google has the largest network of translators in the world. Number of languages in which you can have the Google home page set up, including Urdu, Latin and Klingon: 88
The company’s mission statement is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google was a turning point in the direction of technology and advancement in the world.