Q: What was Google originally named?
A: Google was originally named "Backrub."
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin were developing their search engine project at Stanford University in 1996, they called it Backrub because the system analysed backlinks to determine the importance of individual web pages. The idea was that pages linked to by many others were likely more relevant.
In 1997, they decided to rename the project to something more fitting. They eventually settled on Google, a play on the word "googol," which refers to the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. This name reflected their mission to organise the vast amount of information on the web.
They registered the domain name google.com on September 15, 1997, and the company was officially incorporated as Google Inc. on September 4, 1998.
Source: Some or all of the content was generated using an AI language model
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