Summary of Google

Summary of Google

History

Google can be traced back to the year 1996 when a student at Stanford, Larry Page, began working on the Stanford Digital Library Project, SDLP. While searching for a dissertation theme, Page opted to study the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web and focused on back links. He was later joined by Sergey Brin, and soon after, a web crawler began exploring the internet. The Page Rank algorithm was setup to tie in the importance of each webpage the web crawler came across to the specific ranking of the said page. From there on forth, the ...