Twenty years of building for everyone
As we celebrate our birthday, we reflect on the progress we’ve made toward building technology that helps as many people as possible.
September 2018 marks 20 years since two Stanford Ph.D. students launched a new search engine with a bold mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Though much has changed in the intervening years—we now have tens of thousands of employees and seven products that are used by more than a billion people every month—Google is still dedicated to building products for everyone. To celebrate our 20th birthday, we're taking a look back at what Google has been up to since 1998—and sharing a glimpse at where we're headed next.