When was Google Created? From BackRub to a Search Engine
Posted on September 21, 2026 by Camilla Ashcroft
Quick Answer: Google was officially founded on September 4, 1998, in a rented garage in Menlo Park, California, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford. The project idea started in 1996 as a research search engine called BackRub. I bet you didn’t know Google once had a name that sounds like […]