2- Google's History

2- Google's History
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.[1]While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites.[25] They called this new technology PageRank, where a website's relevance was determined by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site.[26][27] A small search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services designed by Robin Li was, since 1996, already exploring a similar strategy for site-scoring and page ranking.[28] The technology in RankDex would be patented [29] and used later when Li founded Baidu in China.[30][31] Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site.[32][33][34] Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol",[35][36] the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was meant to signify the amount of information the search engine was to handle.[37] Originally, Google ran under the Stanford University website, with the domain google.stanford.edu.[38] The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,[39] and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in a friend's (Susan Wojcicki [1]) garage in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow Ph.D. student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.[1][40][41]