When was Google founded?

Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Initially starting as a research project, they developed a groundbreaking search engine that employed PageRank, a unique algorithm for ranking web pages based on their relevance and popularity. This algorithm proved to be significantly more effective than existing search engines at the time. Realizing the potential impact of their creation, Page and Brin decided to turn it into Google, a company that would revolutionize internet search and eventually transform into one of the most influential and dominant technology companies worldwide.