Who created Google?

Google was created in January 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were PhD students at Stanford University at the time. Unlike conventional search engines during that time which ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, Brin and Page set out to create a new system that would rank pages based on the quality and quantity of backlinks it had. Their search engine was initially named "BackRub", in reference to this system. It was eventually changed to Google, a misspelling of googol, which is the number one followed by a hundred zeroes. The new name was in reference to their intention of providing large quantities of information. Google also initially ran on Stanford's servers (google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu) before the domain Google.com was registered on September 15, 1997.