Google is an American multinational technology company founded in the year 1998. It was initiated as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they are Ph.D. students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. It is specialized in Internet-related services and products which include online advertising technologies, cloud computing, search, software, and hardware. They both together controls 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock and owns about 14 percent of its shares.