Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were students at Stanford (Google.com n.p.). Originally, the search engine was called BackRub and was later renamed to Google in 1997 (Google.com n.p.). By December of 1998 Google was considered the best search engine according to PC Magazine (Google.com n.p.). Since then Google has begun AdWords, the Google toolbar, Gmail, Google+ and more.
