A+Little+History

From humble beginnings, Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, when they were students at Stanford University. They hypothesized that a search engine could better rank the relevance of results, by analyzing the relationships between websites, instead of ranking it by how many times a word appears on a webpage, which was the method back then. Their search engine was originally nicknamed "BackRub" ranked websites by cheacking backlines. They then determined that the site with most associate links from other relevent sites must be the most relevent to the search, they tested out their search engine using the Stanford University website with the domain //google.stanford.edu//. They registered the domain, //google.com//, on 15 September 1997. They company "Google Inc", was incorporated a year later on September fourth. It was physically located at a friend's garage in. The total initial investment raised for the company amounted to almost $1.1 million.