Interesting fact: the predecessor to Google was known as “Backrub” and the logo was just an image of Larry Page’s own hand… The name “Google” apparently derived from the mathematical term “googol” which is the number that is represented by the numeral one followed by 100 zeros. This was meant to represent the amount of information a person could find using “Google.” The very first versions of Google’s logo were created by Sergey Brin using an editing program called GIMP. The logo really hasn’t changed much over time, but one variation did include and exclamation mark which was supposedly inspired by Yahoo!. The colors have all stayed the same and only the shading and shapes of the letters have changed over time. Naturally, from time to time, as we all have seen, Google has created “Google Doodle Logos” which are decoration and typically created for special occasions, birthdays, and holidays. There have apparently been over 1,000 of these Google Doodle Logos!