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Google originally called it BackRub
When Google’s co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started laying its foundations in 1996, they named the company BackRub, unlike what we know today. But they then surprisingly decided to call the company Google.
Google’s name is inspired by the Googol number
One of the biggest numbers in mathematics, 10¹⁰⁰ (written with 1 adding 100 zeros) Googol inspired Google’s name. The company’s founders were inspired by this as a reflection of the huge amount of data search engines analyze. In fact, Google is seen by some as Googol’s typo.