How Tech Logos Have Evolved Over the Decades 🖥️

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The evolution of prominent tech companies’ logos over time. All of these brands ranked highly in a Q1 2024 YouGov study of America’s most popular tech brands.

Backrub

Google was initially called “Backrub” because it analyzed “back links” to understand how important a website was.

According to an article from Business Insider, the Google name came from a graduate student at Stanford named Sean Anderson.

Google is a play off the word “googol”, which is the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes. This name conveys the vast amount of data the company works with.