I was pretty surprised to find this out, thanks to the great waybackmachine archives... google used to be called "backrub" Seriously! Can you imagine that name ever succeeding, can you picture conversation when someone suggested that they rename it "google"? Ahhhh, the good old days when we used DEC's altavista and nobody had heard of Google... I yearn for them! (and before people start asking me to cite my sources, check the very end of this page: http://web.archive.org/web/19990224043535/www.google.com/stickers.html) MOG! EDIT: If you were going to name google now, what would YOU call it?
That's amazing! Imagine asking somebody if they could backrub some information I'm so happy they changed their name.. (and logo skills)
LOL! I like poodles (we've had three so far) but they dont exactly invoke images of searching the net!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol This is what it actually is... 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
I havent counted them, but thats a 1 followed by a hundred zero's right? also known as googles stock valuation LMAO!!!
Seriously, Google is a wayyyy better name. I cant imagine somebody saying "oh yeh, find out by backrubbing widgets"
If google was called backrub do you think they would have had a different name for pagerank? x] BackRank!
LOL, imagine if someone had needed some information and the other person said, "Just Backrub it." That's interesting.
hahaah that's hilarious! thanks for sharing man...that's just priceless. And if they never changed the name...we would all be worried about Backrub rankings lol
Nice name google i mean. I think it'll be made (if it hasn't already) part of the dictionary. Google it!!!