BackRub it or Google it?

Just BackRub it? Sounds weird right!

But did you know a BackRub led to Google?

No, not an actual back massage, but the previous name of Google was “BackRub.”

Google is a large tech company…..

Haha!

You didn’t REALLY think we were going to be defining Google, did you?

We definitely trust that by now you have certainly used Google to search something up on
the internet.

Now that “Googling” has become part of daily life, we should be thankful for the name
changed by the company.

Why? You ask!

Can you really imagine someone saying, “Let me just BackRub that for you.” Yes, Google was
called BackRub back in 1996 but the name barely lasted a year as founders Larry Page and
Serge Brin shortly trademarked the name ‘Google'.

Back sometime in the late ’90s, Larry and Sergey had been working on a search engine and
had given it the name BackRub. You know, because their search engine searched through
backlinks…right.

Fortunately, they were smart enough to realize that they needed an appropriate brand
name for their search engine not a masseuse shop name.

When you ask the question, “what does Google mean,” it turns out that Google is a
misspelling of a real-life mathematical term used by mathematicians to reference 10 to
the power of 100, Googol.
And then …Someone didn’t spellcheck.
When Sean suggested googolplex, Larry responded that he liked the smaller term googol.
Sean, not realizing googol was spelled with an ol at the end, searched the Internet to see
if the domain google.com was available.

Larry liked the new word Sean had accidentally come up with, and voila! Google was named.
And now you have the answer the next time you hear someone else wondering, "where did
the word Google come from".

It most certainly wasn't from a Back rub massage.