Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google(phew).
It was named Backrub and later changed to Google.
Larry and Sergey begin collaborating on a search engine called Backrub.
In 1997, Page and Brin decide to rename Backrub to something else.
In 1996 Larry and Sergey began work on a search engine called Backrub.
Maybe Yahoo would have stood a better chance
had Google retained its former name“Backrub”.
Both Larry Page and
Sergey decided to collaborate on a project named Backrub- analyzing website backlinks for relevance.
In his research project, nicknamed“Backrub”, Page was soon joined by Brin,
who was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship.
At the time Page conceived of Backrub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents,
with an untold number of links between them.
To convert the backlink data gathered by Backrub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page,
Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to existing ones.