Google Inc (Google) is a U.S. company dedicated to providing Internet search, cloud computing, advertising technology, and a host of other Internet products and services. Google was founded as a private company in September 1998 by Dr. Larry Page and Sergey Blum of Stanford University; it was listed on NASDAQ on August 19, 2004. Currently, Google is recognized as the world's largest search engine and one of the top five most popular websites.