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Google Birthday 2026: Did You Know Google Was Not Always Called Google? Check The Search Giant’s Original Name, Founders & Untold Early History
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Before being called Google, the university project created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University was called BackRub in 1996
Google turns 28: the story behind the search engine that revolutionized the Internet
Larry Page and Sergey Brin's project began at Stanford under the name BackRub, changed its identity because of a curious mistake, and received a $100,000 check even before Google Inc. legally existed.
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Google Birthday 2026: Did You Know Google Was Not Always Called Google? Check The Search Giant’s Original Name, Founders & Untold Early History
Google Birthday 2026: Before it became the world’s most popular search engine, Google had a very different name. Here’s how BackRub became Google and how Larry Page and Sergey Brin built the search giant.
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