When Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin first began work on Google it was not named Google. The original name for the massive search engine was BackRub. The reason for the name BackRub was because their system searched for back links (links from one site to another). Back links are the way Google ranks the relevance of webpages on their search engine results page. The name they chose, Google, is actually a play on the word googol, which is the number 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Read more at unrealfacts/google-first-name-was-backrub/#vi81TPtRw3l74eU2.99
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 07:05:01 +0000