Modern Era · North America · Technology
1998
Google founded
September 4, 1998
Two Stanford grad students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, incorporated a company based on their PageRank algorithm for ranking web pages by how often other pages linked to them. They worked out of a Menlo Park garage. Within a decade the word Google would be a verb, and the way humans found information would be permanently changed.
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