Google was originally called BackRub.

                                                   Google was originally called BackRub.

1995
Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford.Accord

ing to some accounts, they disagree about almost everything during this first meeting.


1996
Larry and Sergey, now Stanford computer science grad students, begin collaborating on a search engine called BackRub.
BackRub operates on Stanford servers for more than a year—eventually taking up too much bandwidth to suit the university.


1997
Larry and Sergey decide that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they go with Google—a play on the word “googol,” a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.