Ancient Web: BackRub Still Shows Google Before Google

Stanford's surviving BackRub page preserves the search project that became Google, including 1996 crawl statistics, hardware notes, programming languages, and Larry Page's description of a web crawler built around links.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-08-12

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