Alphabet, Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google search completes 25 years of launch on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. Underlining the importance of the search business, which goes by the name Google Search, the company was named Google from its inception till August 2018, when it was rechristened as Alphabet.
Modest Beginning: BackRub, a research project of Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, was Google’s precursor. BackRub, which the duo built from their dorm room, was a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World Wide Web.
