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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In context

Also in 1998 (5 other events on record)

Good Friday Agreement · Europe · Politics
India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons · South Asia · War
US embassy bombings in East Africa · Africa · War
Clinton impeached · North America · Politics
Viagra approved · North America · Science

Before and after in North America

Before: July 4, 1997: Mars Pathfinder lands
After: April 20, 1999: Columbine High School shooting

Before and after in Technology

Before: May 11, 1997: Deep Blue beats Kasparov
After: 1999: Napster upends music

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Google