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True enough, Google. com has become one of the most valuable brands in the universe, and it still has the most widely used search engines to date. Google. com’s mission is to find a way to organize all the immense information in the web so that it is easily accessible to all the users of the search engine. read more

Turns out that Google is a misspelling of a real-life mathematical term, googol. Back sometime in the late 90’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin were two graduate students at Stanford. They had been working on a search engine and had given it the name BackRub. read more

Google's name comes from the misspelling of the word "googol" which is the name for a (very large) number: "a one followed by one hundred zeros". Interestingly enough, Google's first search engine product was named "BackRub". read more

In August 2015, Google announced plans to reorganize its various interests as a conglomerate called Alphabet Inc. Google, Alphabet's leading subsidiary, will continue to be the umbrella company for Alphabet's Internet interests. read more

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