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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 , 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 partnership quickly caught the eye of investors

Working as a research project, they built a search engine that used a revolutionary method: it analyzed backlinks to determine the importance of individual web pages. Originally, they named this engine . The Garage and Early Growth (1998) Working as

: Artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and quantum computing. I Used Google Docs AI to Write a Story a prospective grad student

With this investment, they moved out of their dorms and into their first real office: a garage in Menlo Park, California, owned by (who later became the CEO of YouTube). A Global Powerhouse

The story begins at in 1995. Larry Page , a prospective grad student, was being shown around by Sergey Brin , who was already a student there. Legend has it they disagreed on almost everything during that first meeting, but they eventually struck up a partnership while working from their dorm rooms. From "Backrub" to "Google" (1996–1997)