September 08, 2003

HAPPY GOOGLEDAY

Google celebrates its fifth birthday:

Google grew out of computer research by its founders Stanford University PhD students Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

The pair initially called their search system BackRub that was so named because it checked the links back to a page to see how popular it was.

Glad that was changed. "I BackRubbed Phillip Adams" sounds deeply wrong.

Posted by Tim Blair at September 8, 2003 12:09 PM
Comments

The world's most popular search engine was started by two guys called Sergey and Larry ... and they call it Google?

Maybe they couldn't decide between Larry the Search Engine and Sergey the Search Engine.

Posted by: pooh at September 8, 2003 at 02:44 PM

Larry and Sergey...where's Mo?

Posted by: slatts at September 8, 2003 at 05:16 PM

Why couldn't they do a PhD on something useful, like whether or not Jesus was gay?

Posted by: Paul Keating at September 8, 2003 at 05:17 PM

Lucky they didn't call it "Cornhole".

Posted by: Fork at September 8, 2003 at 05:48 PM

"I BackRubbed Phillip Adams" sounds deeply wrong.

Geez its not like we're asking you to have a civil union, what you and Philly get up to in the steam room is your own business....

Posted by: scooby at September 9, 2003 at 04:05 AM