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278 They also began to look around for interested parties to sell their ideas to, but surprisingly found little interest amongst the major Internet players, who did not appear to realize the potential of what the duo had created. The founder of Yahoo!, David Filo, was known to them and he encouraged them to begin their own company rather than sell a license of use to others who did not really value the prospects of searching. But he himself did not offer them a partnership at the time, as the tech- niques they used were not yet fully developed. So Larry and Sergey drew up a business plan, put their studies on the backburner, and themselves held a new search – for an investor in their new company, which was called Google. Why Google? This is derived from the word 'googol' which stands for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Sergey Brin and Larry Page chose this as they thought that was appropriate for a search engine which would seek out information from the astronomical number of possible sources contained on the Internet. A Brightly Shining Sun They found their first investor in Andy Bechtolsheim, who was among those that founded the giant Sun Microsystems. He was im- pressed by what they offered, and convinced it would be a success; he immediately gave them a check for $100,000. However, the check was paid out to Google Inc., which did not yet officially exist. So the check sat on ice for a while as Sergey and Larry founded their corporation and sought out other investors to add their money into the starting pot. They were successful, and soon their available funding would near the $1 million mark. So on September 7th, 1998, Google was born; in a sublet garage in Menlo Park, California. Still in beta stage, it was nonetheless dealing with more than 10,000 searches every day, and was rapidly attracting both notice and praise from the general media and specialist publica- tions. PC Magazine included Google in its 1998 list of the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines.