--- description: Find out why Google was selected for the inaugural list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2021: Google image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf78aab7ac2d9e518/698a190ce76ad23727638d19/google-time100-companies-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 27, 2021 # Google Searching for a better world by [Alejandro de la Garza](/author/alejandro-de-la-garza/) ## Alejandro de la Garza Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, photographed at the Googleplex in Mountainview, Calif. on March 11, 2020. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, photographed at the Googleplex in Mountainview, Calif. on March 11, 2020.Paola Kudacki for TIME Google—the world’s most visited website—is a part of modern language: when we want to find something, we [Google](https://time.com/tag/google/ "undefined") it, often on a smartphone running the firm’s Android operating system, which controlled 84% of the market in 2020\. Over the past year, [CEO Sundar Pichai](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2020/5888419/sundar-pichai/ "undefined") put that might to good use—offering ad credits to struggling small businesses and in April announcing funding to vaccinate 250,000 people in low- and middle-income countries. However, Google’s scale may now be part of its problem. In the U.S., the company faces [anti-trust lawsuits](https://time.com/5901696/google-antitrust-case/ "undefined") that, among other claims, allege it is illegally protecting its search monopoly. (Google has denied wrongdoing.) The results of those cases could reshape the way consumers use the Internet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5953739/google-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5953739/google-2/"},"headline":"Google","datePublished":"2021-04-27T00:52:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:25:52.499Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5953739/google-2/","keywords":["Lists","franchise","TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf78aab7ac2d9e518/698a190ce76ad23727638d19/google-time100-companies-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alejandro de la Garza","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alejandro-de-la-garza/"}],"creator":"Alejandro de la Garza","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf78aab7ac2d9e518/698a190ce76ad23727638d19/google-time100-companies-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5953739/google-2/","name":"Google"}}]}] ```