Google ni akọkọ ni owo nipasẹ kan August 1998 iranwo ti $100,000 lati Andy Bechtolsheim, alabaṣepọ oludasile ti Sun Microsystems; awọn owo ti a fun ṣaaju ki o to Google ti a dapọ. Google gba owo lati mẹta miiran angẹli oludokoowo ni 1998: Amazon.com oludasile Jeff Bezos, Stanford University kọmputa sayensi professor David Cheriton, ati alagbata Ram Shriram.
Menlo Park, ní ìpínlẹ̀ California