Google LLC (formerly Google Inc.) is an American IT company. Its flagship product is Google's search engine, and its declared mission is to organize the world's information resources so that they become widely available and useful to everyone. ¹⁾

In 1996, Page and Brin worked together on a spearheading “web crawler” idea inquisitively called BackRub. Some estimate that the early web index's terminology was a gesture to recovering backlinks. ²⁾

In September 1998, the organization's first workspace was Susan Wojcicki's garage on Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, California. Wojcicki, sister of 23andMe originator Anne Wojcicki, is Google worker number 16. She was Google's first advertising chief and is currently the CEO of YouTube.³⁾