Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin; search engine turned advertising monopoly turned everything-platform. For founders, Google is a reference on two opposite things at once: how taste-as-product (clean search box in a cluttered era) can build an empire, and how scale can eventually bury the thing that made you great (see: modern search results vs. 2004 search results). Currently the incumbent racing OpenAI and Anthropic in the AI platform war.
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