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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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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

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.

Try looking it up on http://blufr.com

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.

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

I have a buddy who enjoys an alternate pronunciation for the service: “Go ogle.”

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