Beginnings
Google has its origins in "BackRub", a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University See more

Google has worked with several corporations, in order to improve production and services. On September 28, 2005, Google… See more

• Timeline of Google Search
• Criticism of Google
• Google logo See more

• Google Corporate History (official)
• David Hart: On the Origins of Google National Science Foundation, August 17, 2004 See more

The first funding for Google as a company was secured in August 1998 in the form of a US$100,000 contribution from Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, … See more

The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol", which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin write in their first paper on PageRank: "We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of … See more

• Auletta, Ken (2009). Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-235-3. OCLC 318411527.
• Battelle, John (2005). The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and… See more