The world’s most popular search engine, Google, was originally called BackRub in 1996 when its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborated at Stanford. However, the information labyrinth was registered as Google.com a year later in 1997.
According to Google, the name was created as a play on the word "googol" – a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros – to show the pair’s mission to organise a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.