Google: The Company and Its Founders - Sharyland ISD

HUMBLE BEGINNINGSand potentially bring huge changes to the Internetitself.Sergey Brin and Larry Page, graduate studentsin computer science, were brilliant young prodigieswho excelled at mathematics and engineering. Theirminds never seemed to rest. While studying for theirPhDs, they turned their interests toward creating afaster, easier, and better way of finding informationin cyberspace.In 1996, Brin and Page began working on aresearch project for the Stanford Digital LibraryProject (SDLP). The project involved developingtechnology for an integrated online library ofinformation. It was the catalyst for one of the mostimportant breakthroughs of the information age.THE “SEARCH”In the 1990s, the Internet was fairly new to thepublic. A world of possibilities had been opened, butfinding information on the Internet was difficult.A person had to know the exact uniform resourcelocator, or URL, of a Web page. Otherwise, therewas no guarantee he or she would find the locationwith a search. In August 1995, more than 18,000Web sites existed, and that number was growing7