Hubert Chang - third Google co-founder?

"The initial contact was promising, but without any warning, it was off and on, and finally stopped," he said. "The responses were always from a third person and not directly from Larry and Sergey."

Dejected, he felt the world should know the true story about how Google was founded and decided to come up with a baring-all video.

"Since last contact, I have been agonizing with about whether or not to talk about it. Probably, Larry and Sergey were busy. They didn't communicate with their employee well, or their employee didn't communicate with them well. Or they were indecisive about how to place or position me. Or they were in a status that is awkward to fully acknowledge the past. I do not know which. It's been ten years, and I think this information needs to be known," he said.

Hubert Chang's video was uploaded way back in 2007 but has begun circulating tech sites recently in a big way after Google turned 10.

Chang's claim, however, has been discredited by the Stanford professor himself.

"To the best of my knowledge, his (Chang's) claims about being a founder of Google, coming up with the name and/or the business plan etc, are completely unfounded in reality. I am sure I would have noticed a third founder, if one existed, since I was working closely with Larry and Sergey at Stanford at the time," Prof. Motwani said.