Andrew Yates
ITE 115
December 2, 2012
Professor Robert Maher
Sergey
Brin
Sergey
Brin is one of the major technical pioneers of our time. He is the co-founder
of Google. His invention has affected nearly everyone who lives on this planet.
Sergey with the help of Larry Page created the largest public search engine in
the entire world.
Today
of all research done on the internet 70% is done through Google, and 20% of
research is done through Yahoo. Only a
mere 6% of online research is done on MSN. As you can tell in today’s time
Google is the dominant search engine in the world, but two decades ago this
wasn’t the case. It was predicted that over time Yahoo would be the dominant
search engine of the future. Google though would rock the foundation of the
internet, and become the world’s greatest search engine.
The
invention of Google was not only the accomplishment of Sergey Brin. A man named
Larry Page also is accredited to the invention of Google. The both of them
worked in concordance to make Google. Sergey and Larry met at Stanford
University. They both were attending Stanford to receive their Ph.Ds. Little
did Larry and Sergey know that they would change the internet world.
The
duo both realized that the search engines they had at the time were terrible.
The way these search engines would operate was to take the search keywords that
were used, and the search engine would find documents on the internet that used
those words the most on their page. This would often lead to extremely inconclusive
searches. Also would lead to a lot of wasted time.
Brin
and Page decided that it would be dramatically better to create a search engine
that got results based on citations or “backlinks”, which means references back
to one specific page. Brin and page used a math algorithm that would determine
which sites had how much backlinks. Thus PageRank was born. PageRank would revolutionize the search
engine it would be the end to those old and un-useful search engines. With this
new “PageRank” the two would go on to start the creation of Google.
To
make Google work Sergey and Larry dispatched these programs called “spider”
programs to go out and download the whole entire World Wide Web. Each time the
both of them would dispatch these spider programs it would cost $20,000(Vise
& Malseed, 2006). Google was starting to grow in size, and it was growing
in popularity. The teachers and students of Stanford were using the new website
called Google. Sergey and Larry knew that they would need more computers to
match with the growth of Google, but they also knew they did not have the money
to buy new computers. They decided they would buy old spare parts, and they would
just build their own computers.
Brin
and Page decided to get the “PageRank” system patented, and they would go on
and try to sell the program for other websites to use. They went to AltaVista
first, which was the number one search engine of the time. AltaVista shut them
down though. They said they did not want to use something they did not invent.
Sergey and Larry went to plenty of other companies to sell there “PageRank”
system, but the story was ultimately the same. No one wanted to buy this new
technology that they did not create.
Then
one day they had a scheduled meeting with Andy Bechtolsheim. Bechtolsheim loved
the idea of Google and he gave the two 100,000(Vise & Malseed, 2006) to
help fund Google. Brin and Page would then raise up some more money to go along
with Bechtolsheim’s funding. The two ended up with 1 million dollars, and with
that they turned Google into a company.
They also rented a building on the Stanford campus to be the hub of
their business.
Google
was spreading faster than the two had ever imagined at this point now. By 1999 Google was having 100,000 queries a
day (Vise & Malseed, 2006), and just two years after that Google was
receiving 100 million search queries a day. Google was one of the largest internet
companies in the world. Even after the dot.com collapse in 2000 Google stood
firm as one of the top internet companies of the world. It was estimated in
2003 that ¾’s of all searches by 2003 were done through Google, and in 2004 Google
went public with its stock.
In
today’s times you can go to anyone in the world and they will know what Google
is. Google is and still remains the single largest search engine in the entire
world. In 2008 it was estimated the 90% of all internet sources were done
through Google (Schonfeld, 2009). Sergey
and Larry have created possibly one of the best internet inventions ever. That
is there impact on modern technology.
No comments:
Post a Comment