Sean verbally suggested the word 'googolplex,' and Larry responded verbally with the shortened form, 'googol' (both words refer to specific large numbers). Sean and Larry were in their office, using the whiteboard, trying to think up a good name - something that related to the indexing of an immense amount of data. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)Īccording to Stanford, the story of the naming of Google goes like this: In this photo illustration, The Google logo is projected onto a man on Augin London, England. Alphabet Inc's portfolio includes many identifiable companies like Android, Nest, and YouTube.Ģ. Under a corporate restructuring in 2015, Google became a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Since its inception, Google has expanded its interests to become much more than a search engine. His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother is a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. in computer science from the University of Michigan and his mother was an instructor in computer programming at nearby colleges.īrin was born in Moscow on August 21, 1973, in the Soviet Union. Page was born Lawrence Edward Page on March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan.

(JOKER/Martin Magunia/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Both Founders Come From Highly Educated Families

Learn more about the history of Google here:ġ. In fact, Google registered in 1997, and it may have been officially incorporated in 1998, according to Search Engine Land.īut according to the Telegraph, September 27, 1998, may have been chosen because that's when the first birthday Google Doodle happened to land in 2002. However, some are confused as to why today is Google's 'birthday.' As it stands, Page and Brin met in 1995-3 years before 1998. According to Internet Live Stats, 'Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average (visualize them here), which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide.' If he could divine a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place.''

Wired writes that Page 'reasoned that the entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation.

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