Thursday, February 7, 2013

 
 
Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt.
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies.
 
 A search engines is a program that searches the Internet and finds webpages for the user based on the keywords that you submit. There are several parts to a search engine such as:


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A search engines is a program that searches the Internet and finds webpages for the user based on the keywords that you submit. There are several parts to a search engine such as:
  • search engine software including: boolean operators, search fields, display format, etc.
  • spider software
  • a database
  • algorithms that rank results for relevancy

Google - Googol

The very popular search engine called Google was invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.Google was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros - found in the book Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman. To Google's founders the name represents the immense amount of information that a search engine has to sift through.

Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and BackRub

In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University as graduate students in computer science. By January of 1996, the pair began collaborating on writing a program for a search engine dubbed BackRub, named after its ability to do back link analysis.Next, fueled by the rave reviews that BackRub received, Larry Page and Sergey Brin began working on Google. Operating out of their dorm rooms, the pair built a server network using cheap, used, and borrowed PCs. They maxed their credit cards buying terabytes of disks at discount prices. They tried to license their search engine technology, however, after failing to find anyone that wanted their product at an early stage of development, Page and Brin decided to keep Google, seek more financing, improve the product, and take it to the public themselves.

3 comments:

  1. Lots of good information provided, thanks. This was a very interesting story and i've enjoyed everyones take and feedback on it. What we all took away was somewhat different and was very interesting.

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  2. This is good blog but kind've looks like it has been copied and pasted. But if you have doen this blog it looks very organized.

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  3. Next time, please write your own. Copying and pasting could be considered plagiarism.

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