Creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin
met while at Stanford University and collaborated on a web search engine called
"BackRub." Over time, the engine became too large for the
university's servers and the pair decided it was time for a name change. They
eventually came up with the name "Google," which was based on the
word "googol" - a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100
zeros! They believed this word encapsulated their goal of organizing the
limitless amounts of information stored across the World Wide Web.
