<Dl> <Dd> - Larry Page </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> - Larry Page </Dd> <P> Originally the search engine used Stanford's website with the domain google.stanford.edu . The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997 . They formally incorporated their company, Google, on September 4, 1998 in their friend Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park, California . </P> <P> Both Brin and Page had been against using advertising pop - ups in a search engine, or an "advertising funded search engines" model, and they wrote a research paper in 1998 on the topic while still students . They changed their minds early on and allowed simple text ads . </P>

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