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|  | | | Individual of the Week - Larry Page
If you use the Internet, chances are you use
Google every day. The search engine and the enormously successful
company that shares its name were the creation of a pair of Stanford
University graduate students still in their mid-20s, Larry Page and
Sergey Brin.
It was Larry Page who first hit on the idea of
analyzing Internet links to rate their relevance to a given information
search. At first Page was only interested in writing a fun and
interesting dissertation, but he soon realized his idea had far greater
potential. With his classmate Sergey Brin, he presented his work to
acclaim at the World Wide Web conference in 1998. Within a year they
had raised over $30 million to start a company, Google Inc., providing
a free Web search service that can return an ordered list of results in
a fraction of a second. The simple white page with the multi-colored
logo was an immediate hit with Web surfers around the world. The web
site generates enormous revenue by providing advertising space, linked
by content to the results of a given search.
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