The name choice represents the company's goal of handling enormous volumes of data and search queries across the internet. The mathematical reference emphasizes the scale of information processing that Google's search algorithm was designed to manage.Google was not the original name chosen by Stanford University PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page when they developed their search engine concept. The initial name for their search technology was "BackRub," which operated before the 1997 rebranding effort ...

Happy Birthday Google: Search giant Google is turning 27 today, September 27, in a major milestone. An idea that was birthed at a tiny garage in Menlo Park is now the most popular search engine globally, used by billions of people worldwide.Almost everyone with internet access uses Google everyday. In fact, it's likely that you landed upon this article using Google. But have you ever wondered what ‘Google’ really means?What does ‘Google’ mean?Google is really a clever wordplay on the term ‘Googol’ — a mathe ...