Which university was the original home of Google’s search project?

Stanford University was the original academic home of Google’s search project.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford while they were graduate students in computer science. Their research focused on how links between web pages could help determine the importance of pages, leading to the BackRub search engine.

The project used Stanford’s infrastructure and was closely associated with the university during its early development. Page and Brin later moved the growing operation out of the university environment and incorporated Google in 1998.

People sometimes associate Google’s origins only with its famous garage office. The garage was an early workplace, but the search technology itself began as a Stanford research project before the company was founded.