History of Google

History of Google :

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.^[11]

While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites.^[12] They called this new technology PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site.^[13][14]

Page and B nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.^[15][16][17] Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine originated from a misspelling of the word "googol",^[18][19] the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information.^[20] Originally, Google ran under Stanford University's website, with the domains google.stanford.edu^[21] and z.stanford.edu.^[22]

The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,^[23] and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki^[11]) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.^[11][24][25]

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