Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California.
Originally, Google ran under the Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu.
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.
Google has had several logos since its renaming from BackRub. The current official Google logo was designed by Ruth Kedar, and is a wordmark based on the Catull typeface.In 1998 Sergey Brin created a computerized version of the Google letters using the free graphics program GIMP.
"There were a lot of different color iterations", says Ruth Kedar, the graphic designer who developed the now-famous logo. "We ended up with the primary colors, but instead of having the pattern go in order, we put a secondary color on the L, which brought back the idea that Google doesn't follow the rules."
The Google logo font is Catull BQ, and it was created for Berthold in 1982 by German designer Gustav Jaeger.
