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Bookmark or Share- The true story behind Google's hilarious first name: BackRubBack in 1996, before Google even existed as an entity, Page and Brin were already making up nerdy names for search engines. According to Stanford's David Koller, and Google's own website, Page and...
- History of Google - WikipediaGoogle has its origins in "BackRub", a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. [2]
- How we started and where we are today - Google - Google - About GoogleWorking from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew).
- The true story behind Google's hilarious first name: BackRubAccording to Stanford’s David Koller, and Google’s own website, Page and Brin’s 1996 foray into the world of search engines was initially called “BackRub.” Yes, BackRub. They called it this...
- The Birth of Google - WIREDAs Brin and Page continued experimenting, BackRub and its Google implementation were generating buzz, both on the Stanford campus and within the cloistered world of academic Web research.
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