The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.
Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock.
Google Inc. was formally incorporated on 4 September 1998 in their friendâs garage, with a mission âto organise the worldâs information and make it universally accessible and useful.â The companyâs unofficial slogan, coined by Google engineer Amit Patel, is âDonât be evil.â.