The Search – Google is Born

Google is Born:

Larry Page always wanted to be an inventor. When he was twelve Page read a biography of Nikola Tesla, one of history’s most prodigious inventor. The twelve year old Page was struck by fact: regardless of how brilliant and world-changing Tesla’s work had been, the inventor received little long-term fame or fortune for his efforts. Page tells it’s very sad story. I realized Tesla was the greatest inventor, but he did not accomplish as much as he should have. I realized I wanted to invent things, but I also wanted to change the world. I wanted to invent things, but I also wanted to change the world. I wanted to get them out there, get them into people’s hands so they can use them, because that’s what really matters.

At Stanford University’s:

Students don’t come to Stanford just for the training. They come for the dream: to start a company, grow rich, make their mark on the history of technology, and maybe change the world. This is the university, after all, that spawned Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, Yahoo, and Excite, to name just few. The two others working with Page and Brin were Scott Hassan and Alan Stromberg, graduate assistants who had been assigned to the project. Hassan and Steremberg ended up separating from the project before Google really took off. But even those missing Beatles started successful internet companies. Hassan went on to found eGroups.com with Lary’s brother ,Carl Page , and later sold to Yahoo for more than $500 million. Steremberg had already launched The Weather Underground, a popular weather site, while an undergraduate at Michigan.

Citation analysis:

It is the examination of the frequency, patterns and graphs of citations in articles and books. Inspired by citation analysis, Page theorized that a raw count of links to as page would be a useful guide to that page’s rank. He also theorized that each link needed its own ranking, based on the link count of it’s originating page. But such an approach creates a difficult and recursive mathematical challenge – you not only have to count a particular page’s links, you also have to count the links attached to the links. Very quickly, the math gets rather complicated.