WHO INVENTED IT AND WHY?

 

The primary players in the creation of Google are a pair of geniuses named Larry Page (the “Page” in PageRank) and Sergey Brin (whose name will never be used as part of a product name because no one is totally sure how to pronounce it). They created PageRank and incorporated Google while they were PhD candidates at Stanford.

When they met, both men needed a dissertation topic. To math and computer science geniuses, figuring out a good way to effectively index and search a few trillion unique documents sounds like fun, and so PageRank was born. Page and Brin are idealists who believe that Google’s primary mission is to organize every piece of information in the world and make it easily accessible and useful to everyone.

They’re good guys who just happen to have invented the most useful thing in a stalker’s toolkit since the telephoto lens and chloroform.