
The company's rapid growth since incorporation has included products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine, ( Google Search). In 2021, the Alphabet Workers Union was founded, mainly composed of Google employees. On December 3, 2019, Pichai also became the CEO of Alphabet. Sundar Pichai was appointed CEO of Google on October 24, 2015, replacing Larry Page, who became the CEO of Alphabet. Google is Alphabet's largest subsidiary and is a holding company for Alphabet's Internet properties and interests. In 2015, Google was reorganized as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. Together they own about 14% of its publicly-listed shares and control 56% of the stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.

students at Stanford University in California. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. It is considered one of the Big Five companies in the American information technology industry, along with Amazon, Apple, Meta ( Facebook) Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Then-CEO, and former Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt with cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (left to right) in 2008
