where did Google come from?
It was in 1995 that the seeds were first sown, when two graduate students in computer science met at Stanford University, and at first apparently did not get on at all. Larry Page was 24 years old and on a visit from the University of Michigan, while Russian born Sergey Brin was a year younger and selected among a group to act as hosts and gave him a tour. Apparently they spent most of their time arguing with one another about this and that and almost everything else, but on one topic they agreed; that a common problem, as computer programs became more and more powerful and contained increasing amounts of data, was how to sort out what was relevant in the compiled data to each and every new request for information. Both were frustrated that so much time had to be spent sorting through what was not required to find something of value to whatever project was being undertaken, and both were determined to do something about it – and do it in such a way that others could use it without the
