Google, in a paragraph

Formed in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford maths graduates, Google is today as much a part of the Internet as websites and email. The business was incorporated in 1998 and, within 10 years, was generating $16billion in revenues and employing more than 10,000 people worldwide. The largest part of this revenue is a result of Adwords, Google’s Pay Per Click advertising search engine, a concept developed with Google labs where engineers have, for 20% of their time, the freedom to develop their own ideas.