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Overview

(NASDAQ: GOOGL · $352.72 ▲ 0.3%) Google is a technology company that operates Search, a web search engine whose homepage also links to sections on advertising and business. Web search engines index pages across the internet and return ranked results for user queries, and such services are typically free to use and funded largely through advertising. The company frames its work around building products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe, on the premise that a problem is not truly solved until it is solved for all.

Beyond the search box, the homepage gives users access to search settings, advanced search, search history, a view of their data in Search, search help, a feedback option and a dark theme setting. It also links to privacy and terms pages and to an explanation of how Search works, along with the Google app. Controls over search history and personal data have become a standard expectation for large consumer platforms, reflecting growing regulatory and public attention to how user information is collected and used.

The homepage can be displayed in Thai, with an option to switch to English, in keeping with the company's stated aim of building for people around the world. Offering interfaces in local languages is common practice for global internet services seeking to serve users outside English-speaking markets. In recruiting, Google, whose employees are known as Googlers, invites candidates to bring their insight, imagination, a healthy disregard for the impossible and everything that makes them unique, and it points them to its career opportunities page.

Private funding before listing

Disclosed funding: $10.04B across 6 rounds. Latest: POST IPO DEBT, 1 Aug 2026.

DateTypeAmount
1 Aug 2026POST IPO DEBT$25B
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As of 2026-10-05, Google has 335,953 employees, based on the Enrich Layer count of LinkedIn profiles that list Google as their current employer. Its LinkedIn company size band is 10,001+.
As of 2026-10-05, Google is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, US.
As of 2026-10-05, Google is classified in the Software Development industry.