How Google came to be Wired has a two page article up detailing how Larry and Sergey met each other at Standford and how Google came to be. What's interesting to note is that Google started out as a project for Larry called Backrub, ranking websites on the number of backlinks pointing to a particular site. The project became so popular that it alone almost killed Standford's internet connection.  ¶ 6:07 AM