

It is so widely known that people sometimes use the word "google" as a verb that means "to search for something on Google". Google's American website has an Alexa rank of 1, meaning it is the most widely visited website in the world. By June 2004, Google had 4.28 billion web pages on its database, 880 million pictures and 845 million Usenet messages - six billion things. Google's search engine can find pictures, videos, news, Usenet newsgroups, and things to buy online. It is a public company that trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbols GOOG and GOOGL. That company has taken over some of Google's other projects, such as its driverless cars. Since 2 September 2015, Google has been owned by a holding company called Alphabet Inc.

The motto of Google is "Do the right thing". It is known for creating and running one of the largest search engines on the World Wide Web (Google's headquarters (known as the " Googleplex") is in Mountain View, California, part of Silicon Valley. Google LLC is a multinational corporation from the United States.
