Larry page- A Genius behind Google.

While at Michigan University, Larry made an inkjet printer using LEGO Bricks. He had born in Michigan. Both parents were computer experts and it was only natural that Larry developed his interest in the field from an early age. Larry page attended the University of Michigan to study computer engineering and graduated with honors. Sergey Brin and Larry page met at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California, when they were pursuing their PhD’s. In 1996 Sergey Brin and Larry page began a research project that aimed to develop enabling technologies for a single, integrated and university digital library. They wrote a paper “Anatomy of a Large-scale Hyper sexual web search Engine” which set the foundation for Google

Brin and page have great differences of opinion which they admire as they believe that it has contributed to their success. The name for their engine was derived from a mathematical term “Googol”, which is a number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 Zeros and expressed as 10100. The considered it to reflect their mission of organizing the large amount of information available on the internet. In August 1996, the first version of Google: Google.Stanford.edu was launched. The Google domain name was registered in 1997. In 1998 Raised $1 million from family, friends and other investors to launch Google with Sergey Brin.  After raising $1 million in capital, page and Brin went to Burger King to celebrate their success.  18 million people used Google to search the internet in one day.

Larry page, along with Sergey Brin, gives the utmost importance to the SAT scores of their employees during the recruitment process. In 2002 Larry page was named as world Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow.  In 2004 Sergey Brin and Larry page were honored with Marconi prize. In 2004 Google formed the not-for-profit philanthropic entity Google.org Addressing Michigan university in a commencement address, page talked about how he got the idea for Google in the middle of the night:” “when I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web and just keep the links and I grabbed a pen and started writing!”

Google raised $4.2 billion through its second stock offering. Google acquired most popular video streaming websites, You Tube, for $1.65 billion in stock. Google was nominated the world most attractive employer for graduating students. It is the world’s largest search engine with almost over 200 million queries received each day. At one time, he dated Marissa Mayer, who is now CEO of Yahoo.

Google headquarter has a strong air filter system installed because of the co-founders’ strong sense of smell. Page is suffering from a mysterious illness that caused him to skip shareholder meetings because he lost his voice.