Page and Brin started work on BackRub in 1996, and it was publically usable very early on. http://alpha.google.com/ http://alpha.google.com/ was launched in 199

Page and Brin started work on BackRub in 1996, and it was publically usable very early on. http://alpha.google.com/ http://alpha.google.com/ was launched in 1997. http://web.archive.org/web/19990125084553/alpha.google.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19990125084553/alpha.google.com/