What is Google?
{{For|Teleporting Pages|Apple Inc.}}{{Infobox company | name = Google | logo = | logo_caption = The logo used for Google since 2015 | logo_size = | image = Googleplex HQ (cropped).jpg | image_size = 250px | image_caption = Google's headquarters, the [[Googleplex]] | former_name = Google Inc. (1998–2017) | type = [[Subsidiary]] ([[Limited liability company|LLC]]) | industry = {{Unbulleted list | [[Advertising]] | [[Cloud computing]] | [[Computer software]] | [[Computer hardware]] | [[Internet]] }} | founded = 1995 (first prototype)<br />1997 (second prototype)<br />{{Start date and age|1998|09|04}} (final launch){{efn|Google was originally incorporated on September 4, 1998, however, since 2002, the company has celebrated its anniversaries on various days in September, most frequently on September 27.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://time.com/3250807/google-anniversary/ |title=Google Used to Be the Company That Did 'Nothing But Search' |first=Alex |last=Fitzpatrick |date=September 4, 2014 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/09/27/when-is-googles-21st-birthday-doodle/ |title=When is Google's birthday – and why are people confused? |author=Telegraph Reporters |date=September 27, 2019 |website=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/google-birthday-surprise-spinner-date-problem-start-company-a7968951.html |title=Google birthday: The one big problem with the company's celebratory doodle |first=Andrew |last=Griffin |date=September 27, 2019 |website=[[The Independent]] |access-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112103548/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/google-birthday-surprise-spinner-date-problem-start-company-a7968951.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The shift in dates reportedly happened to celebrate index-size milestones in tandem with the birthday.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www