The First Google Search
With a few keyboard taps, you can find just about anything on Google (as well as some little-known secrets). But way back when, the site was just one of several search engines. At the time, it was actually named BackRub. So yes, the first Google search was made before it was named Google.
Shortly after its inception, BackRub founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin pitched the platform to computer scientist John Hennessy. During the meeting, Hennessy typed “Gerhard Casper” (then the president of Stanford University) into the search engine. He was impressed by the results and the rest, as they say, is history.