Google is an Internet search company founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who met while they were graduate students in computer science at Stanford University. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google has become widely recognized as the world's largest search engine. Operating in more than 150 countries and 100 languages, Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through its proprietary PageRank technology, which ranks webpages according to their relevance to any given search query, Google [Page 479]allows users to find information online at no charge. As the presence of online content related to religion has increased dramatically over the past decade, with millions of webpages devoted to religious content, Google enables users around the ...