5,583,328
I'd say Google....
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
3,349,554
Those look like Google colors to me .... if Google is the answer ... I did not know that.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Carpinteria, CA
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
5,254,675
Definitely Google would be my first response - I'm not surprised it's so many others' thought too!
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John Pusa
Glendale, CA
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
921,504
..that we depend on today
FootRub
Makes the world feel good.
But when I Goggle FOOTRUB, it clearly did not get traction.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
991,352
Looks like a search engine that gets no business from me!
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
4,800,132
I had no clue. Though I could use a back-rub today!
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
213,263
Seriously? Google started as that?
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
4,319,773
Bob Crane - Google!
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
4,177,308
Bob Crane Google.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,113,121
I don't have a clue... never heard of backrub. Sorry.
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Minot, ND
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,847,051
It has to be longer than 20 years for the big G.
G is Sept 1998
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
2,192,369
What were they thinking -Back Rub ???
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
2,400,450
I'll GOOGLE the answer Bob Crane
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
259,055
Colors say it all.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,061,034
809,258
Google was called BackRub??? Why??? What's the rest of the story? -Kasey
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
5,772,587
Google of course. A
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
7,864,157
I need another lesson.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,241,879
Google is 10^100.
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
5,240,031
Amazing! What a wake-up call for using a name!
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
4,901,858
Based on the color I would guess Google?
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
4,961,536
1,624,853
I did not find an answer here. Is it seriously Google? Tell us!
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
376,687
OK, I had to Google it to find out why. Pretty interesting!
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
1,728,256
Got to agree with Barbara Todaro and Kathleen Daniels
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
716,032
I didn't look at any answers, but am guessing based on the colors that it is google.
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
3,988,013
That is some interesting trivia Bob. Now on to get the rest of the story.
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
3,986,308
4,434,177
1,466,257
Bob Crane No idea! I've never heard of it before.
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
2,784,726
1,712,776
1,617,916
1,506,163
1,513,143
Just shows you have to have an alias now and then!
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Bob Crane
Stevens Point, WI
6,418,755
Sergey Brin — Stanford.edu. In 1997, Page and Brin decide to rename BackRub to something else. “Google” is born. It's “a play on the word 'googol,' a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros.
source
Time.com