Google started as a search engine created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. It grew to become a multinational technology company called Alphabet Inc. that operates services such as Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, and YouTube. Google has offices worldwide and made $58.8 billion in revenue in 2013. Notable successes include popularizing web searching and making "Google" a verb, as well as the growth of Android into a leading smartphone platform. Google faced a privacy scandal over unauthorized tracking cookies but paid $40 million to resolve lawsuits over the issue. It is researching projects like Project Loon to expand internet access using high-altitude balloons.