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Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg.
Read the history of how Google has grown since Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998.
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.
Larry Page (born March 26, 1973, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, created the online search engine Google, one of the most popular websites on the Internet.
The very popular search engine called Google was invented by computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The site 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.
GOOGLE'S FOUNDERS. As the 20th century drew to a close, graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University, bonding over a shared vision for organizing the burgeoning World Wide Web’s disorderly proliferation of information.
Read on to learn the fascinating story behind the two inventors who launched Google, the initial development of PageRank, and how Google ultimately rose to internet supremacy. Page and Brin: From Stanford Students to Founders
And it was Larry Page and Sergey Brin's attempts to reverse engineer Berners-Lee's World Wide Web that led to Google.
Google is an American search engine company founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page and a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc. More than 70% of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1996 on the back of an algorithm, turned it into one of the most valuable companies in the world, and have now given up their leadership roles...