Who owns Google Maps?
Google Maps is owned by Alphabet (the United States, NASDAQ: GOOGL).[1]
Evidence: Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-05, SEC EDGAR, 5 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Alphabet Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Mountain View, California
- Origin
- 🇦🇺 Australia, Sydney
- Founded
- 2005
- Category
- Internet & digital › Digital services › Maps & navigation
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: GOOGL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Google Maps
Google Maps grew out of a mapping product built by two Danish brothers in Sydney, which Google acquired in 2004 and launched the following year. Street View, added in 2007, has been the subject of privacy investigations and fines in several European countries.
What Alphabet's annual report says about Google Maps
Sentences about Google Maps from Alphabet's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Paid clicks represent engagement by users and include clicks on advertisements by end-users on Google search properties and other Google owned and operated properties including Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Play.
How often Alphabet names Google Maps in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Google Maps
Where Google Maps sits in Alphabet
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Alphabet
Alphabet controls 13 brands on Brandtree, 13 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Android (2003)
- Fitbit (2007)
- Gmail (2004)
- Google Chrome (2008)
- Google Cloud (2008)
- Google DeepMind (2010)
- Google Nest (2010)
- Google Play (2008)
- Google Search (1998)
- Waymo (2009)
- Waze (2008)
- YouTube (2005)
Other brands in maps & navigation, and who owns them
The 15 brands in maps & navigation on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Garmin, with 2; Alphabet has 2.
About the owner: Alphabet
Alphabet is a publicly listed company headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States, founded in 1998. Brandtree records 13 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: GOOGL.
Alphabet was created in 2015 as a holding company above Google, separating the search and advertising business from ventures such as Waymo and Verily. Google itself was founded in 1998 by two Stanford graduate students, and advertising against search results still produces the overwhelming majority of the group's revenue.
🇦🇺 Google Maps and other Australian brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 214 brands that began in Australia. 64 of them (30%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country, Google Maps among them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Google Maps?
The parent company of Google Maps is Alphabet, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Google Maps Australian or American?
Google Maps originated in Australia in 2005, but it is owned today by Alphabet, which is headquartered in the United States. So Google Maps is an Australian-origin brand under American ownership.
Is Google Maps still owned by Alphabet?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Google Maps is still owned by Alphabet. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Alphabet Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-05 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 5 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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