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The History of Google

  • Writer: Dawie Otto
    Dawie Otto
  • Nov 7, 2017
  • 1 min read

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 the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros, reflects Larry and Sergey's mission to organise a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.


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