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From BackRub to Google.com – the facts

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"173035871"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;">&NewLine;<p> <b>Fact 1<&sol;b> – Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;"><b>Fact 2&nbsp&semi;<&sol;b>– While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page&comma; the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;"><b>Fact 3&nbsp&semi;<&sol;b>– They called this new technology PageRank&comma; where a website’s relevance was determined by the number of pages&comma; and the importance of those pages&comma; that linked back to the original site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;"><b>Fact 4<&sol;b> – Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;BackRub”&comma; because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;"><b>Fact 5<&sol;b> – Eventually&comma; they changed the name to Google&comma; originating from a misspelling of the word &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;googol” the number one followed by one hundred zeros&comma; which was picked to signify that the search engine wants to provide large quantities of information for people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;"><b>Fact 6<&sol;b> – Originally&comma; Google ran under the Stanford University website&comma; with the domain google&period;stanford&period;edu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;"><b>Fact 7&nbsp&semi;<&sol;b>– The domain name for Google was registered on September 15&comma; 1997&comma; and the company was incorporated on September 4&comma; 1998&period; It was based in a garage in Menlo Park&comma; California&period; Craig Silverstein&comma; a fellow PhD student at Stanford&comma; was hired as the first employee&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon;left&semi;"><b>Fact 8<&sol;b> – In May 2011&comma; the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed 1 billion for the first time&comma; an 8&period;4 percent increase from May 2010 &lpar;931 million&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&num;LarryPage &num;business &num;smallbusinesspool &num;larrypageandsergeybrin &num;SergeyBrin &num;domain &num;menloparkcalifornia &num;google &num;StanfordUniversity &num;computing &num;technology &num;internet &num;ecoomics &num;BackRub &num;conventionalsearchengines &num;Web &num;businessmen &num;onehundredzeros<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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