Google yakatanga kutsigirwa nemari yaAugust 1998 ye $ 100,000 kubva kuna Andy Bechtolsheim, mubatsiri weSun Microsystems; mari yacho yakapiwa Google isati yaiswa. Google yakagamuchira mari kubva kune dzimwe ngirozi nhatu mu1998: Amazon.com muvambi Jeff Bezos, Stanford University computer science professor David Cheriton, uye muzvinabhizimisi Ram Shriram. Pakati pevatengesi ava, shamwari nehama dzeGoogle dzakasimudza madhora 1 miriyoni, izvo zvinovabvumira kuvhura shopu yavo yekutanga muMenlo Park, California.
Menlo Park, California