33 photos of Google's rise from a Stanford dorm room to world domination
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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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Not only is Google the most-visited website in the world - it also makes Google Android, the most popular operating system in the world.
And on the back of Google's incredibly profitable advertising business, its parent company Alphabet is worth $543.3 billion.
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But it wasn't always that way.
Here's a look at the history of Google, from its roots in a pair of Stanford dorm rooms, to Larry Page and Sergey Brin's attempt to sell the company, all the way through the explosive announcement that Google was becoming Alphabet.
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