Google Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Step Down from Alphabet Inc.

Page and Brin co-founded Google in 1998, growing the company to become arguably the largest and most powerful tech platform in the world.

Leaks from the company have shown that it has imposed top-down control on a number of political search terms on YouTube and other platforms. It was recently revealed that the company has removed over 300 of President Trumps political ads from YouTube.

Creativity and challenge remain as ever-present as before, if not more so, and are increasingly applied to a variety of fields such as machine learning, energy efficiency and transportation.Nonetheless, Googles core service providing unbiased, accurate, and free access to information remains at the heart of the company.

Within Google, there are all the popular consumer services that followed search, such as Maps, Photos, and YouTube; a global ecosystem of devices powered by our Android and Chrome platforms, including our own Made by Google devices; Google Cloud, including GCP and G-Suite; and of course a base of fundamental technologies around machine learning, cloud computing, and software engineering. Its an honor that billions of people have chosen to make these products central to their lives this is a trust and responsibility that Google will always work to live up to.

Together with all of Googles services, this forms a colorful tapestry of bets in technology across a range of industries all with the goal of helping people and tackling major challenges.

He shares our confidence in the value of the Alphabet structure, and the ability it provides us to tackle big challenges through technology.

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