On 4 September 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, when they were students at Stanford University in California.
They had first met in the summer of 1995, when Page was visiting Stanford University for a tour of its campus and Brin, who was a second-year grad student, had volunteered as a guide for prospective students. Page was in Brin’s group and the two seemed to disagree on everything. But their obsession with backlinks brought them together and the following year they started to work on a PhD project.
Combining their knowledge of math and computer science, they began investigating how they could use math properties as a way to organize information and built a search algorithm able to take into account links and their importance.
They originally nicknamed their new search engine “BackRub”, because the system checked backlinks and ranked them to estimate the importance of a site.
Eventually, they changed the name to Google, a play on the word “googol“, the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information available on the web.
Today the term google has also become a verb: To google, or search on the net.
Il 4 settembre 1998, Larry Page e Sergey Brin fondarono Google, quando erano studenti della Stanford University in California.
Si erano incontrati per la prima volta nell’estate del 1995, quando Page era in visita alla Stanford University per un tour del campus e Brin, che era uno studente del secondo anno, si era offerto volontario come guida per potenziali studenti. Page finì nel gruppo di Brin e i due sembrarono non essere d’accordo su nulla . Ma la loro ossessione per i link di collegamento fu l’inizio di qualcosa di grosso e l’anno successivo iniziarono a lavorare assieme su un progetto di dottorato.
Combinando le loro conoscenze di matematica e informatica. Iniziarono a studiare come utilizzare le proprietà matematiche per organizzare le informazioni e costruirono un algoritmo di ricerca in grado di tenere conto dei collegamenti e valutarne l’importanza.
Originariamente avevano chiamato il loro nuovo motore di ricerca “BackRub”, perché il sistema controllava i backlink (link di collegamento) e li classificava per valutare l’importanza di un sito.
Alla fine, cambiarono il nome in Google, un gioco sulla parola “googol”, l’espressione matematica per il numero 1 seguito da 100 zeri , scelta effettuata per indicare che il motore di ricerca era destinato a fornire grandi quantità di informazioni disponibili sul web.
Oggi il termine Google è diventato anche un verbo che significa cercare in rete.
Image: Pinterest – The Wall Street Journal : The Beginning
Very educative. Good they found Google in September, my birth month 😀.
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What a lovely coincidence!
Thank you so much Eunice 💖🥂💖
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🙏🙏💙
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Same here, friend! A beautiful month for the birth of an important search engine 😉
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You’re right 👍💖💖💖
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Did they also start the trend of tennis shoes with suits? 😃
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Maybe 🤗
They look so naive, don’t they ?
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So informative ..👍👍
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Thanks a ton for your kind response, Divya! 🙂
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Fascinating, Luisa. I knew they met in college but never to this level of detail. You find the best things to highlight for each date.
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Thank you so much Pat, you’re always so wonderfully kind.💖
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Only when I feel it’s deserved. 😉
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🙏💜🙏💜🙏
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Thank you so much 🙏
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Thank you Luisa for this, its quite informative 👍😊
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I’m so glad to read you think so, Daphny.💜
Thank you so much. 🌺
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You’re welcome 🌼❣️
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Sicuramente è il migliore ma Bing mi dà l’opportunità di donare ad enti di beneficienza. Se ne vuoi sapere di più basta che me lo dici. Bye
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Non ho mai preso in considerazione, Bing, non mi ci trovo— ma cos’è la faccenda delle donazioni???
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To think it was almost the term Backrub that became our oft used verb!
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🙏😊🙏😊🙏
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Interessante articolo. Brava!!!
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Grazie, Giusy
Buon sabato pomeriggio 💐💐💐
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Altrettanto a te mia cara 😘
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I’ve read about them a lot about how they started all this. And this is absolutely amazing.
How an idea can grow, you’ll never know.
Thanks for the info.
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Thank you for taking the time to read, Ritish 💜
I am so grateful for your kind and appreciative words.
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Dovremmo tornare al periodo pre Internet, i social ahimè sono la rovina del mondo e Google viene usato malamente nella maggior parte dei casi. Un gran peccato🤷🏻♀️
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Hai ragione, i social stanno soppiantando le amicizie fisiche, e i motori di ricerca danno infiniti risultati non sempre attendibili,
Però devo dire che, in tempo di isolamento, WordPress mi ha aiutata molto a non soffrire di solitudine
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Que ferait-on aujourd’hui sans Google !
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😊😘💖🌹
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Wow, it was a really interesting read. Getting to know history of something that you daily use… Thanks Luisa for sharing this ❤
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So glad you found this post interesting
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for letting me know 💖
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Davvero interessante
.. Grazie😃
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Grazie a te, Ale carissima, e buona serata
💖😘💖😘💖
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You’re still a teacher at heart Luisa and I’ll forever be a student 🙂
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You are really kind, Malc, and I thank you for your appreciation and constant support.
I have to add that I really enjoyed your latest post on London💖🌹💖
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You’re welcome Luisa and I’m glad you enjoyed the London post. I’ve done quite a few posts on London and that one is an update.
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🙏🤗🤗🤗🙏
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🙂
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How nice! More can’t I say… 😁👍💖
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You are wonderfully nice, my dearest friend
😘😘😘
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Oh wow 😅🤗🙏😘🥰😘🙏❤🌹
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😘
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Bing Luisa attraverso l’installazione di un’applicazione spero sia leggibile , sono sempre io come Giano.
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Grazie 🙏
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Google’s been around a quarter of a century? Wow, time flies!
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👍🙏🥂
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Bisognerebbe fargli un monumento a questi ragazzi, tanto è comodo questo Google!!!! Buona serata Luisa 🙂
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Buona serata a te, Vitty carissima 💜😘💜
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Anch’io sono felice che esista Google e non certo per perdere tempo sui social, ma i motori di ricerca sono un’altra cosa. Buona serata Luisa!
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Certamente, I motori di ricerca sono fantastici, Spesso mi dico che, se ci fossero stati al tempo in cui mi sono laureata, fare ricerche per la tesi sarebbe stato molto più semplice e veloce
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Se usati con il cervello Lu….. ma si sa non sempre è così
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Purtroppo alcuni dimenticano di accedere al link con il proprio cervello…..
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Ecco si
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sai che non me lo ricordavo proprio? Mi ha fatto piacere leggerlo, grazie, adesso ne so di più. Buona domenica a te mia cara Luisa
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Grazie di cuore per questo tuo apprezzamento, Alidada cara
Contraccambio l’augurio di una buona domenica, con tanto affetto
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grazie cara 🙂 Buon mercoledì…
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😘😘😘
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Nice information as I was not knowing and nive post too.
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Delighted you enjoyed this post. Thanks very much for your kind words
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Wow! An interesting piece of information! One September, two university students made our lives better forever 😉
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I really appreciate your comment, Sam.
Thanks for reading it , offering feedback, and adding your thoughtful reflection.🌹🌹🌹
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Sempre interessante leggerti! Questa di Google non la conoscevo, grazie mille e buona Domenica.
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Grazie per il tuo apprezzamento, Emilio
Buona domenica a te 🌼🌼🌼
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Leggerti ben inteso…
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Thank you for reblogging 💜🪁💜
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QUANTO mi piacciono queste menti!
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💜👍💜
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An amazing success story in such a short time. Their entrepreneurial talents grew the business like no other.
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They were very clever: their project/ business has become a great success
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di sicuro hanno fato un lavoro straordinario annichilendo tutti gli altri motori di ricerca che sono scomparsi nel nulla.
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Vero, sono stati bravissimi 👍👍👍
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bella serata
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gran bel post luisa…quando l’intelligenza e l’intuito di due giovanissimi diventa leggenda: questi sono i ns tempi….baci
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Un bacione anche a te… e buona settimana
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Check out to first post
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OK 👍
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I have just seen your post.
I think it is interesting and the photos are gorgeous ⭐🙏⭐
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loved the post and the post comments. such great camaraderie is hard to find elsewhere and that’s why i keep coming back to wordpress….best wishes everyone, and may each of you find renewed energy and inertia to pursue your dreams, will always keep cheering you on, so do plug in in case you need a dose of motivation, anytime.
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Thank you so much for these wonderful reflections💐💐💐
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Nice
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