Google Turns 27: The Shocking Rise of a Garage Project into a Tech Titan
Google, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a Menlo Park garage in 1998, now employs about 150,000 people as part of Alphabet, valued at $3 trillion as of September 2025. Google handles 90% of global web searches and its Android OS runs 70% of smartphones. The company has expanded into AI with models like Gemini and the Bard chatbot. U.S. courts recently ruled Google holds an illegal monopoly in search.