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What is Google's official name?

Backrub was the original name for the search engine until Sergey Brin and Larry Page rebranded the company as Google, Inc. Misspellings of Google's URL, such as www.gooogle.com, www.gogle.com, and www.googlr.com, are all owned by Google, Inc.

Back sometime in the late '90s, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were two graduate students at Stanford. They had been working on a search engine and had given it the name BackRub

Backrub was the original name for the search engine until Sergey Brin and Larry Page rebranded the company as Google.

This search engine was dubbed Backrub. Google replaced Backrub shortly after (phew). Larry and Sergey's goal to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" was perfectly expressed in the name, which was a play on the mathematical equation for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.