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Google: The Story Behind One of the Richest Companies in the World

URL: https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-google-1991852

Definition

A search engine is a program that searches the internet and finds webpages for you based on the keywords that you submit.1


Search Engines

Search engine software such as boolean operators, search fields, and display format Spider or "crawler" software that reads web pages A database Algorithms that rank results for relevance1


the name represents the immense amount of information that a search engine has to sift through.1


The first type of search algorithm that was able to grab the best results.

PageRank that determined a website's relevance by taking into account the number of pages, along with the importance of the pages, that linked back to the original site.1


Page and Brin met at Stanford University while they were graduate students in computer science.1


shows the dominance of amazon at the time.

Other angel investors included Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.1


A very important thing to note as in the future they would be the ones to break this.

company motto "Do No Evil."1