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Line 35: + − In 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Stanford University graduate students partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determines the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref> + − In 1997, Page and Brin decided to change the name of the BackRub search engine, the two brainstormed and came up with '''Google'''- a term derived from the mathematical term '''googol,''' which means the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.<ref>[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Googol.html Mathworld]</ref> Google represents the founders objective which is to organize an infinite amount of information on the web. − + −
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==Company Background==
==Company Background==
In 1996, [[Larry Page]] and [[Sergey Brin]], both Stanford University graduate students, partnered in building '''BackRub''' a search engine that determined the importance of individual web pages. This search engine operated for more than a year at Stanford servers until it took too much bandwith to suit the university.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
In 1997, Page and Brin decided to change the name of the BackRub search engine, the two brainstormed and came up with '''Google'''- a term derived from the mathematical term '''googol,''' which means the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.<ref>[http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Googol.html Mathworld]</ref> The name reflects the founders objective, which is to organize an infinite amount of information on the web.
On September 4, 1998, Google was incorporated in California. The company started its business operations in a garage at Menlo Park. Craig Silverstein, was the first employee hired by Page and Brin, a fellow computer science graduate from Stanford. PC Magazine recognized Google as one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
On September 4, 1998, Google was incorporated in California. The company started its business operations in a garage at Menlo Park. Craig Silverstein, was the first employee hired by Page and Brin, a fellow computer science graduate from Stanford.PC Magazine recognized Google as one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998<ref>[http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html History]</ref>
==First Investors==
==First Investors==