Google or Googol?
Some of us do not actually know who the founders of Google are, so to enlighten the readers a bit about this fact, I wrote this article. Google was founded by two brilliant and aspiring Stanford University graduates Larry Page and Sergey Brin. As graduate students of Computer Science, they collaborated on a research project, named Back Rub, which had the capability of analyzing the back links of a website. This project then became the talk of the campus as it gained popularity because of its approach to link analysis. You must be wondering now why the founders didn’t name it after their current research project, Back Rub. Based from the sources that I have read, Google is actually taken from the misspelling of the word googol, a mathematician’s term that refers to the number represented by the numeric 1 followed by a 100 zeros. Google’s domain name registration records dates from September 15, 1997. Cool eh?! Google, which is now earning billions in the industry, is rapidly growing and becoming the largest entity on the World Wide Web. As of 2007, their annual revenue was estimated at a whooping $16.6 billion dollars. Looking on the other side of the coin, Google just started from mere scratch and look where they are heading now. They are the industry’s top earning conglomerates and its founders, who were just plain smart and idealistic, changed the world by making information available with just a click of a mouse.
