BUSINESS QUESTION #1487
What did Larry Page and Sergey Brin start?
Google
Explanation
Google was first incorporated in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both PhD students at Stanford University, USA. They named their search engine after the number googol (the number one followed by one hundred zeros). Today, Google is one of the world's largest search engines, containing a large number of other functions, such as mail, maps, a calendar and image sharing. It is estimated that there are around 200 million different searches every day on the various Google portals.
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