sergey brin by Timothy Stuart https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho Timmy Stuart en-us 2016-11-02 18:24:41 UTC 2024-06-04 03:50:45 UTC hello@padlet.com august  21 1977  819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134903436 present]]> 2016-11-02 18:50:18 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134903436 he en-vented  819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134909909
]]> 2016-11-02 19:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134909909 you can find everything, theirs not much it can not do   819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134915253 2016-11-02 19:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134915253 if we dent have google most people would not have google classroom or the word google.   819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134916832 2016-11-02 19:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134916832 he and Larry page made google 819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134947293 2016-11-02 22:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/134947293 819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135235950 Page elected to attend Stanford, and by 1996 he and Brin were good friends who were collaborating on a project called “Backrub,” which investigated how sites linked back to other webpages. The pair soon realized that helping people find pages with more incoming links (particularly from credible websites) would be a better way to search the Internet.]]> 2016-11-03 20:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135235950 In the summer of 1995, Larry Page, then 22, visited Stanford as a prospective PhD student in computer science. His tour guide was Sergey Brin, a 21-year-old mathematical whiz who was already pursuing his PhD in that department. Despite their common interests, Brin and Page didn’t immediately hit it off—in fact, their first day together was spent arguing.Page later told Wired magazine, “I thought [Sergey] was pretty obnoxious. He had really strong opinions about things, and I guess I did, too.” 819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135236644 2016-11-03 20:36:11 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135236644 As for Brin, he felt that they “both found each other obnoxious. But we say it a little bit jokingly. Obviously we spent a lot of time talking to each other, so there was something there.”Fortunately for them, their relationship was going to get much better. 819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135236942 2016-11-03 20:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135236942 819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135237409 Since they couldn’t sell their technology, Brin and Page knew they needed to start their own company. And they agreed that the name “Backrub” had to go. After considering calling their site "The Whatbox," inspiration was found in the word googol (the term for a number with one hundred zeros).

With a slight change in spelling, Google.com—which Page deemed “easy to type and memorable”—was born in 1997.

And thanks to the name change, no one today is asking, “Did you Backrub it?”

]]> 2016-11-03 20:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135237409 If you think that Google could be spreading itself thin, you’re in good company. In a 2014 interview, Page remarked: “I would always have this debate actually with Steve Jobs. He'd be like, 'You guys are doing too much stuff.'" Brin's take on the matter? “We try to invest…in the places where we see a good fit to our company. But that could be many, many bets, and only a few of them need to pay off.” 819673 https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135238910 2016-11-03 20:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/819673/6m07f9x3e4ho/wish/135238910