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November 2000

Search Us, Says Google

Can't find it on the Web? The Google guys came up with a better way to sift through a billion Web pages-a stack of documents 100 kilometers high-in less than a second. As a result, they're the hottest search engine around.

By Technology Review

"A great comedy duo" is how Time Magazine describes Sergey Brin and Larry Page. But these two dropouts from Stanford's doctoral program in computer science look to be the ones set to do the proverbial laughing all the way to the bank. That's because they left Stanford in 1998 to launch Google.com, and in just a couple years their search engine has become the Web's coolest.

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