The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin had been working together on a search engine they called "BackRub" since early 1996, but with the encouragement of Yahoo! co-founder David Filo, they decided to start a company in 1998 and went looking for investors to back them. Google, Inc. was established on September 7, 1998.
BackRub
Google was really supposed to be called Backrub.. so insted of Google-ing you could be Backrub-ing. ...Im sorry, but I have to say, that's hilarious.
BackRub (the precursor to Google).
no google was never called googly it was called backrub. they called it that because BackRub might have been a reference to the underlying algorithm which counts backlinks as affirmative votes, the same approach that was then turned into PageRank.
I think Backrub is the only one. (Backrub was the previous name for Google.)
Creators of google created a site called "Backrub" similar to google today
Google is a misspelling of Googol which is the number 10^100 (ten to the hundredth power). Google's name accurately portrays Google's mission of organizing all of the world's information.
Backrub
Larry Page and Sergey Brin created it, although it was originally called "BackRub." Larry and Sergey decided that the BackRub search engine needs a new name. After some brainstorming, they went with Google-a play on the word "googol," a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
in the mathematics terminology 10 to the power of hundred is called Google that means 1 after million zeros that's why the name given as Google that is Google is the number one and remaining all are zeros
Googal was what it originally was called. It doesn't have a nickname.