What is Google

Google was first known as BackRub. Google is a search engine that started development in 1996 by Sergey Bring and Larry Page as a project at Stanford University to search for files on the Internet. Larry and Sergey later decided the name of their search engine needed to change and decide upon Google, which is inspired from the term Googol. Google was first known as BackRub. The company is currently based out of Mountain View, California.