How do you find information about a topic in this day and age? Why, you Google it of course! The fact you can do this is all down to two men, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google has become almost synonymous with the Internet, and is by far the most visited website in the world. But how did two computer scientists go from doing their Ph.D thesis to developing a search engine that is used on average 400 million times every day?

Larry Page started his life in 1973 in Michigan. 41 years later, Larry Page is now co-founder of one of the most valuable technology companies in the world and currently acts as chief executive officer. He has reaped many rewards for his genius, including a net worth of around $32.8 billion USD, enough to put him amongst the top 20 richest people on Earth (number 19 on Forbes list of billionaires).

But how did Google start? After graduating from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science Award in Computer Science, Page headed off to Stanford University to pursue a Master of Science Award in the same subject. After completing this, he went on to his Ph.D, but got a bit stuck when choosing his dissertation topic. After some deliberation and a little encouragement from his supervisor, Page began investigating the World Wide Web, looking at the amount and type of backlinks to specific web pages as valuable information into the quality of the web page. Sergey Brin joined Page on this project and they began developing a way to count each backlink to a web page and rank the page based on the quantity and quality of the backlinks. Page and Brin concluded that, if they could develop a successful method, this would make the World Wide Web a better place to find valuable information. As you may have guessed, they succeeded.

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