In 1996 they began working together on a search engine called
BackRub, which was successful enough to crash the Stanford computers that hosted it.
Chapters 2 to 4 detail step-by-step sequences that can be used for giving a full body massage, a foot massage, a simple '
backrub' and for the neck and shoulders, a seated massage is outlined.
Back when Google was still called
BackRub, Hewlett-Packard (HP, hp.com) was busy turning the Digital Equipment Corp.
Page and Brin first started working on the search engine in 1996 and called it "
BackRub." At the time, there were a multitude of search engines available for free on the Internet, but Page and Brin believed their search engine would be distinct from all the others.
By contrast, all was gay and far fleshier at the Milanese country club, where Sylvia frolicked in white tennis shorts and her father, Thurio, and Valentine later stripped to the waist for a
backrub as they discussed Sylvia's matrimonial fate.
* Make coupon books for things like, "Wash the dishes every weekend for one month," "Shovel the snow on driveway," "Cup of tea and sympathy," "10minute
backrub," "Free hug," "Free knitting lessons."
So Page started his
BackRub project, in which he divined a method to count and quantify backlinks on the Web.
By January 1996, the two had begun collaboration on a search engine called
BackRub, named for its ability to analyze the "back links" pointing to a given website.
In January, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin begin work on the search engine's predecessor,
BackRub.
Still, he mocks me for being a Jesus freak, even though in the middle of the night when he can't sleep he wakes me up for prayer and a
backrub.
They thought their program could be quite useful and decided to call it
BackRub. Thankfully, they changed it to Google a term now so widely used it has become a verb meaning to search the internet.
