Things you didn't know about Google
Things you didn't know about Google Google's original name was 'Backrub'. Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally settled on the name 'Backrub' for their search engine because their program analyzed backlinks to understand how important a website was and what other sites it related too. The name lasted for a year until they began brainstorming new names that would reflect just how much data they were indexing. Google's name comes from the mathematical term 'Googol' which is a number that is a 1 with hundred zeroes following it. When page and his office mates at Stanford began tossing around ideas for the name, a graduate student named Sean Anderson suggested the word Googleplex which page then shortened to Google. The original 'I am feeling lucky' option cost Google up to 110 million dollars per year. Thanks to Google instant, the original I'm feeling lucky option has since now Google starts narrowing search results as soon...