Google

Google LLC was founded by two men in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who met at Stanford University. Google was built as a search engine that used an algorithm that would determine the importance of pages on the world wide web.

Before it was named Google, they called it Backrub. They renamed it to Google, which is a play on the word googol, that reflected a mathematical expression and echoed their mission statement "..to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Due to the uprising, it caught the attention of investors from the Silicon Valley, who wrote a check to Page and Brin that helped jump start the office of Google.

Not only is Google the most commonly used search engine, but the company has also produced a web browser, Google Chrome.