Google Inc. (Google Inc.) was founded in September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded, is recognized as the world's largest search engine.

Google is a multinational technology company located in the United States, including Internet search, cloud computing, advertising technology, while developing and providing a large number of Internet-based products and services, its main profit from AdWords and other advertising services.

In the second half of 1999, Google website "Google" officially opened. March 23, 2010, announced the closure of the mainland market search services. August 10, 2015, announced the adjustment of the enterprise architecture, and founded a company called Alphabet "Umbrella Company" (Umbrella Company), as Alphabet's subsidiary. 2015, in the 2015 "world brand 500" ranking in the top, Apple and Amazon were ranked second and third respectively. June 18, 2016, "2016 BrandZ the world's most valuable brand hundred list" announced to 229.998 billion US dollars worth of brand to go beyond Apple to become the top 100. In February 2017, Brand Finance released the 2017 Global Top 500 brand list, ranking first.

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin in the United States Stanford University student dormitory jointly developed the Google online search engine, and quickly spread to the global information searchers; August 7, Google in the United States Mountain View, California is founded as a private joint-stock company. In the same year, the invention of Google PageRank patent.

In September 2001, Google's website rating mechanism PageRank was granted a US patent. The patent was officially presented to Stanford University, where Larry Page was listed as an inventor.

February 2004, because Yahoo abandoned the use of Google search engine and decided to independently develop their own search engine, Google's market share than before the fall.

August 19, 2004, Google Corporation listed on the Nasdaq, a public company.

July 19, 2005, Google announced the establishment of R & D center in China.

December 20, 2005, Google announced a $ 1 billion acquisition of Internet service provider "AOL" 5% stake.

February 15, 2006, Google in Taiwan registered the establishment of branch offices in the United States and the United States high international Limited, and as a domain name operators in Taiwan server.

April 12, 2006, Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Beijing announced the company's global Chinese name for "Google".

In October 2006, Google to $ 1.65 billion acquisition of audio and video content sharing site YouTube, which is Google's largest since the establishment of the merger.

On Nov. 5, 2007, Google announced the development of an open source mobile operating system based on the Linux platform and named it Android.

September 7, 2008, Google Maps Satellite launch, for the Google map service to provide 50 cm resolution HD photos.

March 3, 2010 3:30, Google senior vice president, chief legal officer David Drummond publicly issued a statement, announced that Google closed in the Chinese mainland market search services, and search services from mainland China to Hong Kong The

December 12, 2012, Google in the Chinese regional partners issued a notice that announced today officially in the Chinese market to close the shopping search service. However, after this adjustment, Google also said it would stop through the Google Merchant Center Help Center to provide Chinese e-mail support services.

In May 2012, Google to $ 12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobile.

June 28, 2012, Google I / O Developer Conference opened in San Francisco, and issued code-named "jelly beans" operating system Andrews 4.1, Google's first independent brand Tablet PC Nexus7, social media player NexusQ and concept Smart glasses "Google glasses".

In September 2012, Google China announced that it would stop offering music search services in the Chinese market. Since then, the "Google.cn" service portal only includes the benefits, translation, shopping three. 8, Google acquired network security business company VirusTotal, aimed at enhancing the protection of their own Internet services.

October 2, 2012, Google surpassed Microsoft, becoming the world's second largest technology company, the day, Google's market value expanded to about 249.9 billion US dollars.

December 2, 2012, Google spent $ 17 million acquisition of a company called BufferBox electric business storage services company, the company's services mainly to solve the delivery of the package package "last mile" problem.

In March 2013, Google into the electricity industry, to promote shopping courier services. In the same year, Google China Taiwan data center began operations, the total construction cost of about 300 million US dollars; Google China Hong Kong data center is under construction. Google said that the overall energy consumption point of view, the company's data center than other competitors, the data center energy-saving 50%. Google's data center mainly for Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and other dozens of companies to provide services.

June 11, 2013, Google announced the acquisition of navigation software company Waze, Google became a larger acquisition.

On June 15, 2013, 30 balloons named Google's "Project Loon" project were launched on the island of New Zealand on the 15th.

On October 3, 2013, Google acquired Flutter, whose main business is gesture recognition technology.

October 31, 2013, Google officially announced the launch of the new flagship mobile phone Nexus 5, this phone equipped with the company's own latest operating system KitKat Android, this operating system is also designed for global users, Google aims to through this series of measures To stop the global smart phone market due to different versions of the software caused by the fragmentation phenomenon.

January 6, 2014, Google and General Motors, Honda, Audi, Hyundai and Nvidia jointly set up "open car alliance", the Google open source system Android used in the automotive field. 25, Google's Gmail service a large range of global shutdown problems, and Google+ and YouTube also appeared to visit difficulties. Google has not yet released the reason.

May 27, 2014, Google in China suffered a large-scale shielding, including the extremely important HTTPS search service and Google login service, and all related Google services are affected.

July 1, 2014, as early as 2013 White Valentine's Day has been identified by the Google Sweep Plan to honor, GreaderRSS Reading was closed.

On August 12, 2014, Google announced a partnership with five other companies to build a $ 300 million Pacific submarine cable system to help Asian users get faster.

October 13, 2014, Google into the increasingly popular field of telemedicine.

November 22, 2014, the European Parliament is preparing to pass a motion motion, asked to split Google, divest the search business. The bill proposes to separate Google's search engine from the company's other services to curb Google's dominance in the high-tech industry, supported by the European People's Party and the Socialist Party, two major political parties in the European Parliament.

December 12, 2014, Google confirmed that it will close the engineering department in Russia, nearly a hundred engineers will be arranged to other countries engaged in new work. In addition to the engineering department, Google in other parts of Russia will operate as usual. 17, due to the Spanish legislature recently adopted the "Copyright Law", Google out of the country's market.

January 27, 2015, Google announced that the company's high-speed fiber-optic network project will cover four cities, including Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte and Raleigh - Durham.

February 4, 2015, Google announced the acquisition of children's cartoon application developer Launchpad Toys, hoping to expand the children's mobile application market, Google said it was "the first child designed for the original Google products." 24, Google officially released Android and iOS version of YouTube.

February 26, 2015, Google officially launched Android for Work, provided by the BlackBerry security management.

In March 2015, Google access to smart contact lens patents, Google took out their own manufacturing smart contact lenses, multi-layer design and Google's own research and development of the chip.

April 2015, Google received anti-skimming system patents.

April 11, 2015, Google joined the development of better battery technology forces, to help enter the field of consumer electronics and other hardware.

In September 2015, Google said it was expected to return to the Chinese mainland market in the fall of 2015 and would be allowed to distribute a special version of China's Google Play for the Chinese market. This application store special edition to meet the requirements of the Chinese side, while the need to store data in the local.

November 4, 2015, Google UAV operations director Voss revealed that in 2017 is expected to launch UAV delivery service.

December 2015, by Google's DeepMind company developed the Go Artificial Intelligence program AlphaGo officially released.

June 18, 2016, "2016 BrandZ the world's most valuable brand hundred list" announced that Google to 229.998 billion US dollars brand value to go beyond Apple to become the top 100.

In February 2017, Brand Finance released the 2017 list of the world's top 500 brands, Google ranked first.