Google was incorporated as a privately-held company on September 4, 1998, by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The founders met when Brin was assigned to give Page a tour of Stanford University, where they both became computer science, grad students.
The original name for the search engine they collaborated on was BackRub, but they changed it to Google in 1997. The name is a play on “googol,” which is the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. It represented the seemingly infinite amount of information they were trying to organize.
By December 1998, PC Magazine was recognizing Google as one of the “Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.”
With its official mission statement “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” and unofficial slogan, “don’t be evil,” Google has grown to be one of the world’s largest and most recognizable companies. The company has offices in more than 40 countries and several of the most visited websites in the world.
Sources: EDN, Time, Digit.
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