Computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google in their Stanford University dorm room in the 1990s - and it has since become one of the most popular search engines in the world
It is referred to as the 'most powerful company in the world' - but many people are only just learning what Google actually stands for. Founded by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin in September 1998, Google completely transformed how people use the internet.
But 26 years after its launch, one puzzled Quora user is asking: "Is Google an acronym?" It turns out the name Google is a misspelling of Googol - the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. This name was picked to reflect Larry and Sergey's mission "to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful".
"By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year, they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web. They called this search engine Backrub. Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google ."
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