google backrub

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Google backrub. In this paper we present google a prototype of a large scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Was officially launched in 1998 by larry page and sergey brin to market google search which has become the most used web based search engine larry page and sergey brin students at stanford university in california developed a search algorithm at first known as backrub in 1996 with the help of scott hassan and alan steremberg the search engine soon proved successful and the. Lawrence edward page born march 26 1973 is an american computer scientist and internet entrepreneur he is best known as one of the co founders of google along with sergey brin.

Google is designed to crawl and index the web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. Some speculate that the early search engine s. In 1996 page and brin collaborated on a pioneering web crawler concept curiously called backrub. In july 1998 the logo s color scheme was finalized with the uppercase g and the l in green the first o and the e in red the second o in yellow and the lowercase g in blue and.

This logo was used during google s developing stage at stanford university but google wasn t a company yet. The backrub search engine was based on java and python. The technical foundation of backrub. In the year google was created backrub had already indexed 25 million pages.

Stay up to date with google company news and products. Page was the chief executive officer of google from 1997 until august 2001 stepping down in favor of eric schmidt then from april 2011 until july 2015 when he moved to become ceo of alphabet inc. Google inc was finally established on september 4 1998 and the renaming of the search engine from backrub to google was decided.