Google was founded in 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University. Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google and developed it into one of the most important and valuable companies in the world, providing popular applications such as Google Chrome, Google Translate, YouTube, and Google Images. Google's trademark became the most valuable in 2007, earning $66 billion and surpassing brands like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and General Electric.