On September 15, 1997, two Stanford PhD candidates, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, registered the domain name Google.com. Originally nicknamed “BackRub”, because their new system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site, the name was changed to Google after its name was derived from the misspelling of the word “googol”, the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was meant to signify the amount of information the search engine was to handle.
Google was later incorporated on September 4, 1998 at a friend’s garage in Menlo Park, California. And, as the saying goes, the rest is history.
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