Google was originally called "Backrub".
Creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin met while at Stanford University and worked together on a web search engine called "BackRub." After a while, the engine became too large for the university's servers and they concluded it was time to change the name of the search engine.
They finally came up with the popular name we all know as "Google," which was based on the word "googol" - a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros! They believed this word contained their aim of organizing the boundless amounts of information stored across the World Wide Web.
For more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
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