The Birth of Google at Wired, spotted via Google Blogoscoped, has John Battelle recounting how Google came to be. Larry Page and Sergey Brin found each other obnoxious at first. Page was fascinated by the math the web represented and how who was linking to whom might be useful. That led to the precursor of Google, Backrub. Brin joined up and together the rank calculation system dubbed PageRank (the Page coming from Larry's last name) was born. Fast, easy read and tantalizing glimpse of John's The Search book due out in September, from which its excerpted....
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Battelle On The Birth Of Google
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