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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.
Lawrence Edward Page[2][3][4] (born March 26, 1973) is an American businessman and computer scientist best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin. [2][5] Page was chief executive officer of Google from 1997 until August 2001 when he stepped down in favor of Eric Schmidt, and then again from April 2011 until July 2015 when he became CEO ...
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.
Read the history of how Google has grown since Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company in 1998.
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.
Larry Page is an internet entrepreneur and computer scientist who teamed up with grad school buddy Sergey Brin to launch the search engine Google in 1998.
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.
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...
Larry Page cofounded Google with his Stanford graduate school classmate Sergey Brin. Page helmed Google's parent company, Alphabet, from 2015 to 2019, when Sundar Pichai took over.
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.