Who owns Google Search?
Google Search 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
- 🇺🇸 United States, Menlo Park, California
- Founded
- 1998
- Category
- Internet & digital › Search & social › Search engines
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: GOOGL
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Google Search
Google Search handles the large majority of web searches worldwide, and its original PageRank method ranked pages by who linked to them rather than by how often a word appeared. A United States court ruled in 2024 that the company had unlawfully maintained a monopoly in general search.
What Alphabet's annual report says about Google Search
Sentences about Google Search from Alphabet's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Google Search helps people find information and make sense of the world in more natural and intuitive ways, with trillions of searches on Google every year.
While Google Search started as a way to find web pages, organized into ten blue links, we have driven technical advancements and product innovations that have transformed Google Search into a dynamic, multimodal experience.
How often Alphabet names Google Search 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 Search
Where Google Search 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 Maps (2005)
- Google Nest (2010)
- Google Play (2008)
- Waymo (2009)
- Waze (2008)
- YouTube (2005)
Other brands in search engines, and who owns them
The 10 brands in search engines on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is Apollo, with 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| AOL | Apollo | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Quark | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Baidu Search | Baidu | 🇨🇳 China |
| Yahoo! JAPAN | LY Corporation | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Bing | Microsoft | 🇺🇸 United States |
| NAVER | NAVER | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Seznam Search | Seznam | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic |
| Yandex Search | Yandex | 🇷🇺 Russia |
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 Search and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Google Search is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Google Search?
The parent company of Google Search is Alphabet, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Google Search American?
Yes. Google Search originated in the United States in 1998 and its owner, Alphabet, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Google Search still owned by Alphabet?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Google Search 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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