What Day Was the incorporation of Google?

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated Google as a privately held company, building on a search engine research project the two had started as Stanford PhD students a couple of years earlier.

The company's name is a play on "googol," the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, reflecting its founders' ambition around organizing enormous amounts of information.

The company operated for its first period out of a rented garage in Menlo Park, California, a detail now commemorated with a plaque as a landmark of Silicon Valley technology history.

The company's first investment check, for $100,000, was written to "Google Inc." before the company had technically finished incorporating, requiring the founders to quickly open a bank account under that name to cash it.