Google got its start in 1995 when founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page met. The following year, they started working on a search engine called BackRub, but once it clogged Stanford University servers after a year, they registered Google.com on September 15th, 1997. Let’s take a look at how the most used search engine on the internet has grown into something much more. Since launch, the tech giant has acquired more than 200 companies.