HOW OLD IS GOOGLE?

Google is 13 years old as of 2011 because Google was introduced in 1998.

In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin meet at Stanford. (Larry, 22, a University of Michigan grad, is considering the school; Sergey, 21, is assigned to show him around.) According to some accounts, they disagree about most everything during this first meeting. In 1996, Larry and Sergey, as grad students at Stanford, decide to collaborate and work together to make a search engine. Thus, a search engine called BackRub was introduced the same year, running off of servers functioning at Stanford.

In 1997 Larry and Sergey decide on a new name for Backrub: Google, which is also based on Stanford's server. In 1998, things really got going! Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of sun enterprises, wrote a check of $100,000 for Larry and Sergey to get their project rolling. It is made out to "Google Inc.", which did not yet exist.

In September of that year, Google moves from www.google.stanford.edu (which is no longer a valid URL, but you can view the old google on http://web.archive.org/web/19981206152126/google.stanford.edu/) to www.google.com

This marks the official kickstart of Google. So yeah, Google is 13 years old as of 2011 because Google was introduced in 1998.