The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.048 m) high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.
Google was founded in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, in California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock.
The google.com domain name was registered in September of 1997. Google Inc. was formally incorporated by Page and Brin almost exactly one year later in 1998. Their first office was located in a friendâs garage in Menlo Park, California. What is Google named after? Where did the name Google come from?