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.
If you believe Googleâs birthday should be the year it was first established, the company technically would have been âbornâ in 1996. During that year, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed the concept for the company as a research project.