BusinessSunday, March 22, 2026

By 1997, BackRub was consuming Stanford's entire internet bandwidth

The university's network kept struggling because two students were crawling the whole web. The university was not amused. So Larry and Sergey made a decision. They needed a new name, a new home, and a whole new plan.

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