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Google: True or False?
“When Google was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site’s importance.”
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7 Comments
joe - Mr SEO
July 26th, 2006
at 4:08pm
False. It was called foot rub. If you didn’t do it right you’d get a kick in the ass and out of the SERPS
James
July 26th, 2006
at 4:16pm
True!
http://www.google.com/intl/en/customlogos.html
Andrew Ferguson
July 26th, 2006
at 6:38pm
False. It was originally called “Googol”. But when one of their investored wrote a check to “Google”, they liked the name and it stuck…at least that’s the story I was told.
lea
July 26th, 2006
at 10:57pm
Try looking it up on http://blufr.com
Submit Site
July 27th, 2006
at 2:55am
False I think. I dont know what it was called back then, but surely Google started giving weightage to websites linking to you in much later updates.. .. or so I believe.
Aryeh Goretsky
July 29th, 2006
at 1:22am
Hello,
I believe this is “true.”
Of course, one only has to use Google to search itself to come up with pages such as this one and this one, which sort of lend credence to the, uh, truthiness of the question.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Michael Markman
August 1st, 2006
at 10:55am
I have a buddy who enjoys an alternate pronunciation for the service: “Go ogle.”