Larry Page Sergey Brin Stanford University Stanford, California Google Search Robotics Willow Garage

Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they
were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.[17] The project initially

involved an unofficial "third founder", Scott Hassan, the original lead programmer who wrote
much of the code for the original Google Search engine, but he left before Google was officially
founded as a company;[18][19] Hassan went on to pursue a career in robotics and founded the
company Willow Garage in 2006.[20][21]
While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms
appeared on the page, they theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships
among websites.[22] They called this algorithm PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by
the number of pages, and the importance of those pages that linked back to the original site. [23]
[24]
Page told his ideas to Hassan, who began writing the code to implement Page's ideas. [18]
Page and Brin originally nicknamed the new search engine "BackRub", because the system
checked backlinks to estimate t
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he importance of a site.[25][26][27] Hassan as well as Alan Steremberg were cited by Page and Brin as
being critical to the development of Google. Rajeev Motwani and Terry Winograd later co-
authored with Page and Brin the first paper about the project, describing PageRank and the initial
prototype of the Google search engine, published in 1998. Héctor García-Molina and Jeff
Ullman were also cited as contributors to the project.[28] PageRank was influenced by a similar
page-ranking and site-scoring algorithm earlier used for RankDex, developed by Robin Li in
1996, with Larry Page's PageRank patent including a citation to Li's earlier RankDex patent; Li
later went on to create the Chinese search engine Baidu.[29][30][31]
Eventually, they changed the name to Google; the name of the search engine originated from a
misspelling of the word "googol",[32][33] the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which was picked to
signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. [34]
Google's original homepage had a simple design because the company founders had little experience
in HTML, the markup language used for designing web pages.[35]
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, [36] and the company was
incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki[17])
in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the
first employee.[17][37][38]

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were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.[17] The project initially

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