They eventually changed the name to , a play on the mathematical term "googol" (the number 1 followed by 100 zeros). This reflected their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web. The Garage and Early Growth (1998)
The story of Google is a classic Silicon Valley "garage-to-global-empire" journey that began with a chance encounter and a disagreement. The Stanford Meeting (1995) They eventually changed the name to , a
The partnership quickly caught the eye of investors. In August 1998, Sun Microsystems co-founder wrote them a check for $100,000. To use the funds, they had to officially incorporate as Google Inc. . They eventually changed the name to