The evolution of prominent tech companies’ logos over time. All of these brands ranked highly in a Q1 2024 YouGov study of America’s most popular tech brands.
Google was initially called “Backrub” because it analyzed “back links” to understand how important a website was.
According to an article from Business Insider, the Google name came from a graduate student at Stanford named Sean Anderson.
Google is a play off the word “googol”, which is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes. This name conveys the vast amount of data the company works with.
Logos were gathered from a variety of sources, including 1000logos.net
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