Google is celebrating it’s 27th Birthday, and to add a little nostalgia into the mix it shared a Doodle featuring the Original Google logo. Google was started by two Stanford PhD graduates Larry Page, Sergey Brin in 1998. The Big Tech firm started from a garage while now is the powerhouse of technology serving billions of users through its products.

Interestingly Google was originally not named as “Google”. The search engine was originally named as the ‘BackRub’. However it was changed to the present name after a brainstorming session in 1997, since they wanted to name the search engine something which reflects the vast amount of information available on it.

How did the name Google come into existence?

The name “Google” emerged from a misspelling of “googol,” a mathematical term repre

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