1995~ Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. Larry, 22, a U Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around. 1996~ Larry and Sergey begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year, eventually taking up too much bandwidth. 1997~ Google.com is registered as a domain on September 15. The name, a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by

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