During their first meeting at Stanford University Larry Page and Sergey Brin reportedly didn’t agree on much. However, a year later the two students began building a search engine in their dorm rooms that they called BackRub, which was eventually renamed Google.
Page designed a system that could detect the linking behaviour of pages, which could then be ranked using the PageRank algorithm that the duo created themselves.
Google (a name inspired by a mathematical term) was first launched on Stanford’s private network before entrepreneur and investor Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Brin and Page a US$100,000 check, which led to an office upgrade; a garage in suburban California owned by YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Wojcicki, who was a student and a homeowner at the time, rented out her garage to the Google Co-Founders, resulting in a win–win situation for both parties.
By the early 2000s the company’s more than 1,000-person workforce relocated to the famous Googleplex headquarters in California’s Mountain View from where it continues to deliver products that are used by billions of people around the globe.
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