The History of Google



Everyone knows the name Google. Whether young or old, computer smart of not this name will pop up in any conversation about computers. Google has created some very impresssive milestones of its time and continues to grow rapidly every day. It all started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in Standord. Talk about a match made in heaven!



However,according to some they disagreed on just about everything during their first meeting. In 1996, now firm friends and both of them computer science grad students, began developing a search engine called BackRub. This search engine had operated on switch servers and renamed the search engine in 1997, calling it Google. The name comes from a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zero's. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.

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