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Larry Page
By: Corbin Yap 2010
Who is Larry Page?
What is Google?
Google over 10 years
Larry Page’s Career
Other facts about Larry:
Video
Conclusion:
Bibliography :
Who is Larry Page?
• Larry Page is a famous US Computer
scientist, best known as the cofounder
of Google, alongside with Sergey Brin.
• Also, he is the 6th richest person in
America and is ranked the most
important person (with Sergey Brin and
Eric Schmidt) on the Web, by PC World
Magazine.
• Larry was born on March 26th 1973, in
Lansing, Michigan, US into a nopracticing Jewish family.
• In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Found Google, INC, the now most
popular search engine.
What is
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Google is an American Corporation, designed to earn profit
from advertising its internet services, such as Internet
Search, e-mail, online mapping, even video sharing.
Google classified information on the web first by finding it,
then performing the “PageRank” algorithm. This relied on a
new technology which examined relevance of backlinks the
connected a Web page to another. This system was far
superior to other search engines.
There was actually a search engine created before Google,
by Page and Brin, technically found in 1996, actually being
named “BackRub”, meaning to operate on the servers of
Page and Brin’s university, Stanford University.
However when the search engine took up too much
bandwidth for the university, they created a new one in
1998, naming it “Google” inspired from the number googol,
equal to a 1 followed by 100 zeroes, claiming this term
reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount
of information on the internet.
In 1998, co-founder of Sun, Andy Bechtolsheim, wrote a
check for $100,000 to Google, a company that didn’t exist
yet.
10 Years of
• Over 10 years Google has grown from
a basic company to the most
important website on the internet!
Here is a summary of the highlights
over the years.
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1998: cofounder of Sun, Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for $100,000 to Google, first Google workspace set up in 232 Santa Margarita, California, Google
files for incorporation on September 4th.
1999: Google moves to new location: 2400 Bayshore in California, Google’s first press release announces a $25 million round from Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia
Capital.
2000: Google releases 15 new languages for the search engine, French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish,
Chinese, Japanese and Korean, Google wins their first Webby Awards, awarded for Technical Achievement and People’s choice.
2001: Google expands to 26 languages, Eric Schmidt is named chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Google, index size expands to 3 billion web
documents, Google Images launches, offering access to over 250 million images, International office opens in Tokyo.
2002: Google News is Established, with 4000 sources for news, Google Product Search is established, first Australian office opened in Sydney, major partnership
forged with AOL, Google announced to be the most useful word of the year.
2003: Google Print established, later named Google Book Search.
2004: Google search index hits 8 billion items, moves to new building – Googleplex at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, now with over 800
employees, Google local is established, later joined up with Google Maps.
2005: 1.1 billion images indexed in Image Search, Google Maps goes live, Google Earth and Google Talk is established, Gmail established for mobile phones.
2006: Chat released in Gmail using tools from Google Talk, Google news for mobile phones, Google Trends and Google Calendar launched,, First Doodle for
Google contest began.
2007: Google Maps released in Australia, Google Gear launched, Google maps recieves prime placement on the iPhone.
2008: New version of Google Earth launches, incorporating 12 more languages and “Street View”, Google Earth introduced for iPhone and iPod touch.
Larry Page’s Career
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Larry Page’s interest in computers began when he was only six years of age, being allowed to “play with the stuff lying around.”
He became the first kid in elementary school to hand in an assignment from a word processor. He was also taught how to take
things apart by his older brother, and before long, he was taking everything apart in his home just to see how it worked. Quo ted
from Page himself: “From a very early age, I also realised I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in
technology...and business. So probably from when I was 12 I knew I was going to start a company eventually.”
Page attended a Montessori school in Lansing, and proudly graduated from East Lansing High School. Page recieved a Bachelor of
Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Masters degree in Computer Science from
Stanford University. Whilst at the University of Michigan, Page’s computing skills stood out, him creating an inkjet printer from
Lego, serving as the president of the “HKN”, and becoming a member of the solar car team.
Page considered pursuing the interesting mathematical properties of the internet, or the World Wide Web, in which he understood
its link structure similar to a huge graph .
In 1995, during a spiring orientation for new computer science Ph.D students, Page met with Brin for the first time. Brin was
assigned to show some students around the campus, having a two year experience. Later they created a good friendship.
In 1998, Page and Brin found Google, Page and Brin running Google with Page as co-president, until they hired Eric Schmidt as
CEO and Chairman of Google, three years later, in 2001.
In 2003, both Page and Brin obtained an honorary MBA from IE Business School for “embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and
lending momentum to the creation of new businesses.” Also, in 2004, they were awarded the Marconi Foundation Prize, the
“Highest Award in Engineering”.
In 2004, Larry Page was named “Person of the Week”, along with Sergey Brin, by ABC World News Tonight.
Larry Page married to a woman named Lucinda Southworth on December 8th 2007, at Richard Branson’s Caribbean island,
Necker Island.
On 2007, Page, Brin and Schmidt were ranked #1 on the list of 50 most important people on the web in PC World.
On 2009, May 2nd, Larry Page received an honorary doctorate from his former University, University of Michigan, during
commencement ceremony exercises.
As of today, Larry Page continues to work under Google, hoping to unveil new technology to assist internet usage.
Other facts about Larry
• Outside Google, Larry Page is an investor
in alternative energy companies like
Tesla Motors, the developers of the Tesla
Roadster, a 350km range battery
powered electric vehicle.
• He also is committed to energy
technology which is renewable and
promotes the introduction on hybrid
electric cars and other alternatives for
energy with the help of Google.org, the
philanthropic arm of Google.
Video
Here is a video of Larry Page
and Sergey Brin unveiling
the G1, an android powered
phone, which became
available October 2008.
The video will start
automatically.
Conclusion
• To conclude, Larry Page’s work,
alongside with his associates, has
contributed a great deal of
convenience for the modern world.
If it were not for projects such as
Google, Gmail, Youtube or Google
Earth, the world of the internet
would be far less advanced. For all
this, Larry Page deserves much
appreciation and recognition.
Bibliography
• http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
• Video obtained from:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UNJCyWvrQ