23 famous companies that used to be called something very different

Google, formerly BackRub

The world’s most popular search engine, Google, was originally called BackRub in 1996, when its founders Larry Page and Sergy Bin collaborated at Stanford. But the information labyrinth was registered as Google.com a year later in 1997. According to Google, the name was created as a play on the word ‘googol’ – a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros – to show the pair’s mission to organise a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.