• Question: who made google?

    Asked by cristiano97 to Hannah, Gopal on 14 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Hannah Little

      Hannah Little answered on 14 Jun 2013:


      Are you asking this so you don’t have to google “google” and then break the internet?

      Google was first created by a couple of PhD students (just like me!) in 1996 who came up with a really clever system that ranked pages based on how many other websites had linked to them, which no one had done before. They were called Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry Page is still the CEO!

    • Photo: Gopal Ramchurn

      Gopal Ramchurn answered on 17 Jun 2013:


      Larry Page and Sergey Brin were studying at Stanford University when they Page invented the simple but effective PageRank algorithm – this was key to Google’s success at finding the best search results…. but most of their success didn’t actually come from search – it came from advertising: those ads you see on the side of your search results! (people pay a lot of money – sometimes more than $100 to put adds there!).

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