Google turns 28: How Larry Page and Sergey Brin built a tech giant
- Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford in 1995 and began developing a search engine that would become Google.
- Their early project, BackRub, used links between webpages to rank search results, laying the foundation for PageRank.
- Google was formally incorporated on September 7, 1998, after the founders secured a $100,000 investment.
- What began with servers built from spare hardware grew into a global technology company spanning search, Android, Maps, YouTube and AI.
Source: storyboard18.com
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