In which year was Google incorporated as a private company?

In which year was Google incorporated as a private company?
| In which year was Google incorporated as a private company? 

A. 2002

B. 1998 

C. 2005

D. 2000

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Right Answer is: B

SOLUTION

The correct answer is option 2) i.e. 1998.

  • Google was incorporated as a privately-held company on September 4, 1998, by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
  • The original name for the search engine they collaborated on was BackRub, but they changed it to Google in 1997. 
  • The name is a play on "googol," which is the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
  • It represented the seemingly infinite amount of information they were trying to organize.

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