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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* (Schonfield 2009). 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.
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MSN
stands for Microsoft Network
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” (Vise and Malseed 2006), 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 (Vise and Malssed 2006) , 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.
Bibliography
Page
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Vise, D. A., & Malseed, M. (2006).
The google story. Delacorte Pr.
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Schonfeld, E. (2009, January 28).
techcrunch.com. Retrieved from http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/28/google-gobbled-up-90-percent-of-all-us-search-growth-in-2008/
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