History of Google

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History of Google

Beginnings: Added a very important predecessor search engine to Google which was called Alta Vista

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While finding a topic for his doctoral thesis in 1995, Page considered exploring the mathematical properties of the [[World Wide Web]] by understanding its link structure as a huge [[Graph (discrete mathematics)|graph]].[[John Battelle|Battelle, John]] (August 2005). "[https://www.wired.com/2005/08/battelle/ The Birth of Google]." Received August 16, 2025. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318175553/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html |date=March 18, 2014 }}." ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]''. His supervisor, [[Terry Winograd]], encouraged him to pick this idea (which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got"[https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.bestadvice.fortune/2.html The best advice I ever got] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127150338/http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.bestadvice.fortune/2.html |date=November 27, 2013 }} (Fortune, April 2008)). Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, comparing the importance of tracking such [[backlink]]s to the role of [[citation]]s in [[academic publishing]]. Page told his ideas to Hassan, who began writing the code to implement Page's ideas.
While finding a topic for his doctoral thesis in 1995, Page considered exploring the mathematical properties of the [[World Wide Web]] by understanding its link structure as a huge [[Graph (discrete mathematics)|graph]].[[John Battelle|Battelle, John]] (August 2005). "[https://www.wired.com/2005/08/battelle/ The Birth of Google]." Received August 16, 2025. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318175553/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/battelle.html |date=March 18, 2014 }}." ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]''. His supervisor, [[Terry Winograd]], encouraged him to pick this idea (which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got"[https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.bestadvice.fortune/2.html The best advice I ever got] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127150338/http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/fortune/0804/gallery.bestadvice.fortune/2.html |date=November 27, 2013 }} (Fortune, April 2008)). Page focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, comparing the importance of tracking such [[backlink]]s to the role of [[citation]]s in [[academic publishing]]. Page told his ideas to Hassan, who began writing the code to implement Page's ideas.
Google's predecessor was Alta Vista
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The research project was nicknamed "BackRub", and it was soon joined by Brin, who was supported by a [[NSF-GRF|National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship]]. The two had first met in the summer of 1995, when Page was part of a group of potential new students that Brin had volunteered to give a tour around the campus and nearby San Francisco. Both Brin and Page were working on the [[Stanford Digital Library Project]] (SDLP), whose goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library". The SDLP was funded through U.S. federal agencies including the [[National Science Foundation]].{{Cite journal |last1=Brin |first1=Sergey |last2=Lawrence Page |year=1996 |title=The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine |journal=Computer Networks and ISDN Systems |volume=35 |issue=1–7 |page=3 |citeseerx=10.1.1.109.4049 |doi=10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00110-X|s2cid=7587743 }}{{Cite journal |last1=Brin |first1=Sergey |last2=Rajeev Motwani |last3=Terry Winograd |year=1998 |title=What can you do with a web in your pocket |journal=Data Engineering Bulletin |volume=21 |pages=37–47 |citeseerx=10.1.1.107.7614}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20090508033156/https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9411306 The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project], Award Abstract #9411306, September 1, 1994 through August 31, 1999 (Estimated), award amount $521,111,001{{Cite journal |last=Mervish |first=Jeffrey |date=January 2, 2009 |title=NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library |journal=Science |volume=323 |issue=5910 |pages=54–56 |doi=10.1126/science.323.5910.54 |pmid=19119211 |s2cid=45137596|doi-access=free }} Brin and Page also received funding from Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS), a program by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) and the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) to fund the improvement of [[intelligence (information)|intelligence]] databases on the disorganized World Wide Web.{{Cite web |last=Nesbit |first=Jeff |date=2017-12-08 |title=Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance |url=https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/ |access-date=2021-08-26 |website=[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]] |language=en}}
The research project was nicknamed "BackRub", and it was soon joined by Brin, who was supported by a [[NSF-GRF|National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship]]. The two had first met in the summer of 1995, when Page was part of a group of potential new students that Brin had volunteered to give a tour around the campus and nearby San Francisco. Both Brin and Page were working on the [[Stanford Digital Library Project]] (SDLP), whose goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library". The SDLP was funded through U.S. federal agencies including the [[National Science Foundation]].{{Cite journal |last1=Brin |first1=Sergey |last2=Lawrence Page |year=1996 |title=The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine |journal=Computer Networks and ISDN Systems |volume=35 |issue=1–7 |page=3 |citeseerx=10.1.1.109.4049 |doi=10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00110-X|s2cid=7587743 }}{{Cite journal |last1=Brin |first1=Sergey |last2=Rajeev Motwani |last3=Terry Winograd |year=1998 |title=What can you do with a web in your pocket |journal=Data Engineering Bulletin |volume=21 |pages=37–47 |citeseerx=10.1.1.107.7614}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20090508033156/https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=9411306 The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project], Award Abstract #9411306, September 1, 1994 through August 31, 1999 (Estimated), award amount $521,111,001{{Cite journal |last=Mervish |first=Jeffrey |date=January 2, 2009 |title=NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library |journal=Science |volume=323 |issue=5910 |pages=54–56 |doi=10.1126/science.323.5910.54 |pmid=19119211 |s2cid=45137596|doi-access=free }} Brin and Page also received funding from Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS), a program by the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) and the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) to fund the improvement of [[intelligence (information)|intelligence]] databases on the disorganized World Wide Web.{{Cite web |last=Nesbit |first=Jeff |date=2017-12-08 |title=Google's true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance |url=https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/ |access-date=2021-08-26 |website=[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]] |language=en}}
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