Two men by the name of Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford University in 1995 and in 1996 they began collaborating on a search engine called BackRub. In 1997 they both decided that their newly invented search engine needed a new name...They decided on Google. Google was a play on words, the original word being googol, referring to a mathematical number with 100 zeros after it. Using the word Google was to refer to the infinite amount of information accessible through the web. It's interesting that in 1998 the co-founder of Google Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 which the company currently didn't have towards what we know now as Google Inc. one of the biggest companies in the world. Today, Google is the largest search engine in the world. But it does have competition like, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, Wikipedia, and many other sites that provide a lot of information.
http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html
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