Google (the company Google Inc.) was created on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a garage in Menlo Park, California.

Quick Scoop

  • Google’s roots go back to a Stanford research project called BackRub started around 1995–1996.
  • The google.com domain was registered in September 1997, a year before the company was formed.
  • Google Inc. was officially founded on September 4, 1998, generally treated as the date “Google was created.”
  • In 2026, that makes Google about 27 years old.

In other words, the idea began as a university project, but the Google you know today “started” when Google Inc. was incorporated on September 4, 1998.

TL;DR: When people ask “when was Google created,” the accepted answer is: September 4, 1998.

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