Larry Page is the co-founder of Google and is currently the President of Products of for Google Inc.
Lawrence E. Page was born in 1973 in Lansing, Michigan to parents Carl Vincent Page, who is a professor of computer science at Michigan University and Gloria Page, who is a computer programming teacher at Michigan University. With his parents guidance from the beginning, Page was destined to be successful in the IT industry in one way or another.
After graduating from East Lansing High School he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and went on to study a Masters degree at Stanford University. While studying at Stanford University, Page was introduced to Sergey Brin. The two did not start out as friends, seeming to disagree on most topics of conversation, but eventually came across a subject that had been a great interest to them both. That topic was Retrieving information from large data sets. The pair later wrote what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper called "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". The paper has since become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.
Soon after they started working on a project that later became the Google search engine. After trying to sell the idea failed, they wrote up a business plan and brought in a total initial investment of almost $1 million to start their own company. In September 1998 Google Inc opened in Menlo Park, California. The company grew so quickly and gained so many employees’ a few office relocations were made due to lack of space, with Google Inc finally settled in its current place at Mountain View, California. Over the next few years headed by Larry and Sergey Google made many innovations and added to its list of products and employee’s (nearly 5000 by 2006). By October 2004 Google announced their first quarterly results as a public offered company, with record revenues of $805.9 million. As of 2005 Page has been estimated to be worth US$12 billion and is sixteenth in Forbes 400 list and making him the 27th richest person in the world.
In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) for the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with Co-Founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
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Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, born August 21, 1973 is a Russian American computer scientist and industrialist who, along with Larry Page is best known as the co-founder of Google Inc., the world’s largest Internet company, based on its search engine and online advertising technology. Brin immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union at the age of six. Earning his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland he followed in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, double-majoring in computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, whom he later befriended. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their Ph.D studies to start up Google in a rented garage. The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment Man", and someone who believes that "knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance", a philosophy that is summed up by Google’s motto of making all the world’s information "universally accessible and useful" and "Don't be evil".
History of Google~
Everyone knows the name Google. Whether young or old, computer smart or not this name will pop up in
any conversation about computers. Google has created some very impressive milestones of its time and
continues to grow rapidly every day. It all started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in Stanford. Larry
was 22 and a graduate of University of Michigan was there considering attending the school. And low and
behold Sergey, who was 21, was there to show him around. Talk about a match made in heaven!
However, according to some they disagreed on just about everything during their first meeting. In 1996,
now firm friends and both of them computer science grad students, began developing a search engine
called BackRub. This search engine had operated on Stanford servers for just a little over a year when it
started taking up to much bandwidth to suite Stanford. So they decided to switch servers and renamed the
search engine in 1997, calling it Google. The name comes from a mathematical term for the number 1
followed by 100 zero’s. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount
of information on the web.
any conversation about computers. Google has created some very impressive milestones of its time and
continues to grow rapidly every day. It all started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in Stanford. Larry
was 22 and a graduate of University of Michigan was there considering attending the school. And low and
behold Sergey, who was 21, was there to show him around. Talk about a match made in heaven!
However, according to some they disagreed on just about everything during their first meeting. In 1996,
now firm friends and both of them computer science grad students, began developing a search engine
called BackRub. This search engine had operated on Stanford servers for just a little over a year when it
started taking up to much bandwidth to suite Stanford. So they decided to switch servers and renamed the
search engine in 1997, calling it Google. The name comes from a mathematical term for the number 1
followed by 100 zero’s. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount
of information on the web.
Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
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