To make sure you're protected by the latest security updates, Google Chrome can automatically update when a new version of the browser is available on your device. With these updates, you might sometimes notice that your browser looks different. . computer Get a Chrome update when available Normally updates happen in the background when you close and reopen your computer's browser. But if you haven't closed your browser in a while, you might see a pending update: On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, look at More . If an update is pending, the icon will be colored: Green: An update's been available for 2 days. Orange: An update's been available for 4 days. Red: An update's been available for 7 days. To update Google Chrome: On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, click More . Click Update Google Chrome. If you don't see this button, you're on the latest version. Click Relaunch. The browser saves your op...
The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search , which has become the most used web-based search engine . Page and Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm at first known as "BackRub" in 1996. The search engine soon proved successful and the expanding company moved several times, finally settling at Mountain View in 2003. This marked a phase of rapid growth, with the company making its initial public offering in 2004 and quickly becoming one of the world's largest media companies. The company launched Google News in 2002, Gmail in 2004, Google Maps in 2005, Google Chrome in 2008, and the social network known as Google+ in 2011, in addition to many other products . In 2015, Google became the main subsidiary of the holding company...