Google's goal is to organise the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

As a first step towards achieving this goal, Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to searching online using a method that they came up with in their student accommodation at Stanford University, which was quickly adopted by people seeking information all over the world.

Google is now generally considered to be the biggest search engine in the world. It offers a free and easy-to-use search facility that supplies relevant hits, usually within a few fractions of a second.

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