Google’s 27th Birthday: The Surprising Truth Behind Its Date, Iconic Logo & Legacy
Google began as a Stanford PhD project in 1996 called BackRub, a search engine that ranked pages by links ndtv.com. Co‑founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated the company on Sept 4, 1998 and soon rented a Menlo Park garage as their first office ndtv.com. Crucially, in August 1998 Sun Microsystems co‑founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 cheque payable to “Google Inc.” – effectively turning the fledgling project into a real company ndtv.com ndtv.com. By early 1999 the team had outgrown the garage and moved into an office in Palo Alto ndtv.com.
