THE STORY BEHIND THE GOOGLE
THE STORY FROM THE GARAGE TO GOOGLE The story was started around 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around. By some accounts, at that first meeting, they disagreed on almost everything, but by the following year, they had reached a partnership. Working from their dormitories, they built a search engine that uses links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine backrub. Immediately, the backend was renamed Google (Pew). The name is a play on the mathematical expression of the number 1, followed by 100 zeros and a reflection of Larry and Sergey's goal of 'managing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful'. In later years, Google attracted the attention of not only the academic community but also Silicon Valley investors. In August 1998, Sun wrote a check for 100,000 dollars to co...