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Whilst founded in 1998 , Google ’ s story began in 1995 at Stanford University , working from their dorm rooms , Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web . They called this search engine Backrub , which was swiftly changed to Google .

Today the company is on a mission to organise the world ’ s information and make it universally accessible and useful . Part of this includes building products that help create opportunities for everyone , such as its cloud computing solutions .

Google Cloud allows its users to build apps faster , make smart business decisions , and connect people anywhere . With more than 150 products , Google ’ s cloud platform is built for AI , machine learning , compute , storage , databases , data analytics , networking , developer tools and security .

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