Who
Co-founded by Sergey Brin, who was born in Moscow to a Jewish family that emigrated to the United States in 1979 to escape Soviet antisemitism, together with Larry Page.
When
1998
Where
Stanford / Menlo Park, California, USA
Google began in 1998 as a Stanford research project into ranking web pages and grew into the world's most-used search engine. Its co-founder Sergey Brin came to the U.S. as a child refugee from a Soviet Jewish family and helped design the underlying algorithms.
Sources
Part of “The Gifts of the Jews” — verified Jewish contributions to the world, with sources.