How Popular Tech Companies Got Their Names
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How Popular Tech Companies Got Their Names
Sergey Brin and Larry Page had originally nicknamed their search engine "BackRub" as the system checked backlinks (any link received by a web node from another web node), to estimate the importance of a site. Eventually, they changed the name to Google, which originated from a misspelling of the word "googol" (the number one followed by one hundred zeros). The name was picked to signify the large quantities of information the search engine wanted to provide to the people.

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