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Today, almost every Internet user is familiar with Google. Its founder, Sergey Brin, a Jew by nationality, has long thought about the need for a discovery of this kind. His biography is a vivid example of the fact that today it is quite possible to make a discovery, to create a brilliant project.

The biography of Sergei originates in the USSR, so the Russian people can proudly say today that the creator unique system Google, Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is our countryman, Russian. Brin Sergey Mikhailovich was born in Moscow in 1973 in a family of mathematicians.

His mother, Evgenia, worked as an engineer, while his father was a gifted mathematician. However, in the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Brin experienced great inconvenience: latent anti-Semitism posed barriers to a talented mathematician. After graduating from Moscow State University, he was denied admission to graduate school, which pushed him to the fact that Brin began to work on his Ph.D. thesis “in private”. Mathematicians were not allowed to go abroad to scientific conferences either. But for unknown reasons, he was signed a visa to travel to the United States on a private invitation.

And at the end of the 70s of the last century, families who wanted to change their place of residence began to leave the Soviet Union. One of the first to decide to leave the country was Mikhail Brin. In the USA, he had many familiar mathematicians, so the choice fell on this power. So the biography of six-year-old Sergei took a sharp turn: he turned from a Soviet citizen into an American.

The beginning of the life of the Brins in the USA

After the move, the father of the family settled at the University of Maryland in the small town of College Park. His wife got a job as a scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Agency.

Sergey Brin, the future founder of Google, during his studies began to amaze teachers with completed homework assignments, which he printed out on a home printer. After all, at that time, even in the United States, not everyone in families had computers - it was a rare luxury. Sergey Brin, on the other hand, owned a real Commodore 64 computer, which his father gave him for his nineth birthday.

Years of doctoral studies

Upon graduation, Sergey Brin is educated at the University of Maryland, where his father worked. With a bachelor's degree in his pocket, the future founder of Google moves to Silicon Valley - the place where the most powerful minds of the country are concentrated. The myriad of tech institutions and high-tech companies in Silicon Valley provide a wide range of choices for those who want to improve their knowledge. Sergey Brin chooses among the whole mass of offers a super-prestigious computer university - that was Stanford University.

Anyone who did not know Brin well could be mistaken in believing that the future founder of Google was a “nerd” - Sergey, like most young studio students, preferred fun classes to boring doctoral studies. The main disciplines to which Sergey Brin devoted the lion's share of his time were gymnastics, dancing, and swimming. But, despite this, a sharp idea, the name of which was “Google search engine.

After all, a lover of the fascinating Playboy site was sorry for his time and effort to “comb” it in order to look for something new. And, as they say, laziness is the very first reason for progress - and Sergey Brin created a program, independently and personally for his needs, which automatically found everything “fresh” on the site and downloaded the resourceful young man this material.

The meeting of two geniuses that changed the whole world of the Internet

Here, at Stanford University, the meeting of the future founders of Google took place. Larry Page and Sergey Brin made up a wonderful intellectual tandem, which brought a unique innovation to the Internet - the original Google search engine.

However, the first meeting did not bode well at all: both Sergey Brin and Larry Page were a match for each other - both proud, ambitious, uncompromising. However, at some point in their disputes and screams, two magic words flashed - “search engines” - and the young men realized that this was their common interest.

We can say that this meeting was an important milestone in the destinies of both young people. And who knows if Sergey's biography would have been replenished with the discovery of Google if he hadn't met Larry? Although today it is generally accepted that it is Sergey Brin who is the founder of Google, while undeservedly forgetting to mention Larry Page.

First search page

Meanwhile, Sergey Brin, together with Larry Page, now, having abandoned all youthful amusements, pored over their “brainchild” for days. And in 1996, in the computer of Stanford University, where both young men studied, a page appeared - the predecessor of the now well-known search engine Google systems. The search page was called BackRub, which translated as "you - to me, and I - to you." It was scientific work graduate students whose names were Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Later, the search page became known as PageRank.

BackRub founder Sergey Brin kept a server with a hard drive in his dorm room. Its volume was equal to one terabyte or 1024 "gigabytes", if translated into modern language computer scientists. BackRub's principle of operation was based on not just finding pages on the Internet upon request, but ranking them depending on how often other pages link to them, how often Internet users access them. Actually, this principle was subsequently developed in the Google system.

The future founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, became even more established in their decision to continue working on improving the search system, because even this imperfect program began to be used by a huge number of people. For example, in 1998, about ten thousand users applied here daily.

However, the proverb that the initiative must always be punished at this time was very inopportunely realized. Sergey Brin recalls that Stanford professors were indignant that the service began to consume most of the university Internet traffic. But the worst thing for teachers was not even that - the future creators of Google were accused of hooliganism!

The reason for everything was the imperfection of the system. And she even "flaunted" university "closed" documents, access to which was strictly limited. At this time, the biography of the future founders of Google could well have received such a negative fact as being expelled from the university.

Turning Google into Google

Young people were already developing their grandiose discovery, they even came up with the name of the company - Googol, which meant one with one hundred zeros. The meaning of this name was that the company would have a huge base, a huge number of users! But it became impossible to work further on the university computer, so it was urgent to look for investors.

As it turned out, it’s not enough to come up with a bright name for your company, you also need to be able to convince wealthy people to believe in your genius, to decide to invest your capital. And here Sergey Brin and Larry Page could not find their vein in any way - the majority of potential investors did not even want to talk about the company.

And suddenly the young people were surprisingly lucky: businessman Andy Bechtolsheim, the one who was among the founders of Sun Microsystems Corporation, decided to help them. However, he did not even listen to the confused speech of the young men, but somehow immediately believed in their genius and success.

Andy, two minutes into the conversation, took out his checkbook and began to write out a check for one hundred thousand dollars, inquiring about the name of the company. And only when they went out into the street, the young people discovered a “mistake”: their investor casually, due to his inattention, renamed their offspring, putting the name of the company “Google Inc” instead of “Googol”.

Now the partners faced a new problem: in order to receive money by check, it was necessary to urgently register Google. Sergey Brin along with Larry Page took academic leave at the university and began to urgently call friends and relatives in order to obtain some finance to achieve the goal. It took a whole week, and on September 7, 1998, the birth of Google with a million-dollar capital in the account was officially registered.

The success of the search engine is the success of its creators

At first, Google's staff consisted of four people. Sergey Brin was a leading founding member of Google. Most of finances were spent on business development - there was practically nothing left for advertising. However, in 1999, all the major media were ringing about a successful Internet search engine, the number of Google users increased many times over. Sergey Brin and Larry Page pointed out that Google search was not limited to a few powerful servers - Google supported several thousand simple personal computers.

In the summer of 2004, the company's shares on the stock exchange received the highest value. Sergey and Larry were at the peak of their success.

From that moment on, Sergey Brin's biography underwent a dramatic upheaval: he and his companion friend turned into billionaires. The fortune of each today is estimated at over 18 billion dollars.

Work in a company

Today, the company has a main office in the very center of Silicon Valley. The comfort in which employees work here shakes the most democratically organized companies and corporations.

For example, employees can play roller hockey on Saturdays right in their company's parking lot, and breakfasts and lunches in the cafe for employees are prepared by well-known qualified chefs invited there. Hot coffee and variety cold drinks provided to employees free of charge. Also during the working day they can use the services of massage therapists.

It may seem surprising that the workplace Staff are allowed to bring their pets. Therefore, in the company's offices you can see cats, dogs, rats with hamsters, and even iguanas and other reptiles.

The Google story begins in 1995 at Stanford University. Larry Page was considering Stanford for grad school and Sergey Brin, a student there, was assigned to show him around.

By some accounts, they disagreed about nearly everything during that first meeting, but by the following year they struck a partnership. Working from their dorm rooms, they built a search engine that used links to determine the importance of individual pages on the World wide web. They called this search engine Backrub.

Soon after, Backrub was renamed Google (phew). The name was a play on the mathematical expression for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros and aptly reflected Larry and Sergey"s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Over the next few years, Google caught the attention of not only the academic community, but Silicon Valley investors as well. In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and now CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights. (The tradition of keeping things continues to this day.)

Even in the beginning, things were unconventional: from Google’s initial server (made of Lego) to the first “Doodle” in 1998: a stick figure in the logo announcing to site visitors that the entire staff was playing hooky at the Burning Man Festival. “Don't be evil” and “ The ten things we know to be true” captured the spirit of our intentionally unconventional methods. In the years that followed, the company expanded rapidly - hiring engineers, building a sales team, and introducing the first company dog, Yoshka . Google outgrew the garage and eventually moved to its current headquarters (a.k.a. “The Googleplex”) in Mountain View, California. The spirit of doing things differently made the move. So did Yoshka.

The relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do. Today, with more than 60,000 employees in 50 different countries, Google makes hundreds of products used by billions of people across the globe, from YouTube and Android to smart box and, of course, Google Search. Although we’ve ditched the Lego servers and added just a few more company dogs, our passion for building technology for everyone has stayed with us - from the dorm room, to the garage, and to this very day.

The founder of Google - Brin Sergey Mikhailovich - was born in Moscow on August 21, 1973. His father, Mikhail Izrailevich, worked at the Moscow Institute of Mathematical Economics, and his mother, Evgenia Brin, worked as an engineer in one of the capital's research institutes. Because of the anti-Semitic sentiments that flourished in scientific circles former USSR, the family was forced to emigrate to the United States. There, Brin's father began working at the University of Maryland, and his mother at NASA.

The future founder of Google graduated primary school in the small town of Adelphi. He received his secondary education in another city - Greenbelt. His father noticed young Brin's penchant for mathematics and at the age of nine gave him the first personal computer. After graduation high school Google founder Sergey Brin becomes a student at the University of Maryland Mathematics Department (in 1990). In 1993 he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science.

After completing his studies at the university, Sergey becomes a scholarship holder of the National scientific fund. In the same year, he tries to enroll in where he is denied. But the future founder of Google does not despair and continues his studies in where, after two years, he receives and continues his scientific career.

While writing, Sergey Brin meets Larry Page. The future founders of Google quickly became friends on the basis of common interests, one of which was the problem of searching, organizing and presenting information on the Web, as well as the principle of building search engines. Young people began to work together on these issues. As a result, Brin developed algorithms for link mass and ranking, Page drew the concept of network search. Scientists could not sell the latest foundations and principles of the device. Therefore, they decide to implement their own developments on their own. So, in September 1997, it was registered Domain name"google.com", and a new company was launched.

Google placed its first data center in a rented garage. The ambitious project was invested by friends, acquaintances and relatives of the founders of the company. In 1998, Google founder Sergey Brin officially registered Google. In the same year it was published teamwork, which describes the basic principles of the engine of the new search engine. Even today, this work is considered one of the most profoundly revealing this topic.

High search results contributed to the popularization new system. In 1999, the company began to attract large investors. The founder of Google noted that the main advantage of his search engine is to focus on quality search, and not on advertising. It was Sergei who came up with the company's credo: "Do not have evil intentions!" Initially, his project was not meant to be commercial. Nevertheless, the system that regulated the selection of ads in accordance with the result of the request began to bring more than a decent income. In 2001, Google founder Sergey Brin took over as the company's president of technology.

Currently, Google is not only the most popular search engine, but also an innovator in technology and business.