Twenty years back, two Standford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin came together to launch Google with the mission of organizing the world’s information. The first version of Google was born out of their research project released in August 2006. The domain google.com was officially registered on September 15 1997 and the company was officially incorporated on September 4, 1998. While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites. Brin and Page had initially named Google, Backrub. In 1996, they renamed Backrub to Google - a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. They believed the name aptly reflected their mission “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

The tech giant is celebrating its 20th birthday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion. Google has grown bigger over the years. Search options are now available in more than 150 languages and over 190 countries. Google is still dedicated to building products for everyone.