Google, is a play on words of "googol" which is a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. It is rumored that this reflects the founders' mission to organize the infinite amount of information on the internet.
In 1998 Larry launched a monthly newsletter called "Google Friends Newsletter" to inform fans about the company. This has since been replaced with blogs such as Google+. In August of 1998 Sun co-founder, Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to the as yet non-existent company Google Inc. He did this after seeing a quick demo on the porch of a Stanford faculty member's home in Palo Alto.
It was hardly love at first sight. Walking up and down the city’s hills that day, the two clashed incessantly, debating, among other things, the value of various approaches to urban planning. “Sergey is pretty social; he likes meeting people,” Page recalls, contrasting that quality with his own reticence. “I thought he was pretty obnoxious. He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too.”
“We both found each other obnoxious,” Brin counters when I tell him of Page’s response. “But we say it a little bit jokingly. Obviously we spent a lot of time talking to each other, so there was something there. We had a kind of bantering thing going.” Page and Brin may have clashed, but they were clearly drawn together – two swords sharpening one another.
When Page showed up at Stanford a few months later, he selected human-computer interaction pioneer Terry Winograd as his adviser. Soon thereafter he began searching for a topic for his doctoral thesis. It was an important decision. As Page had learned from his father, a computer science professor at Michigan State, a dissertation can frame one’s entire academic career. He kicked around 10 or so intriguing ideas, but found himself attracted to the burgeoning World Wide Web.
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