Larry Page and Sergey Brin: Information at Your Fingertips (Trailblazers in Science and Technology)

Harry Henderson

ISBN 10: 1604136766 ISBN 13: 9781604136760

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library), 2012

Synopsis

When Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin collaborated on the search engine Google, they didn't realize that their invention would soon become so ingrained in Web culture that its name would be used as a verb. As the search engine of choice worldwide, Google ranks Web sites' popularity according to how many other sites link to them, increasing the chances that the desired Web site is in the first few results. More than just a search engine today, Google boasts maps, email, videos, e-commerce, news, social networking, and much more. Larry Page and Sergey Brin shows how the combination of personal decisions and particular opportunities for Page and Brin have led to remarkable results in their professional and personal lives.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Trailblazers in Science and Technology profiles individuals who made discoveries that greatly broadened human knowledge and sometimes changed society or saved many lives. In addition to describing those discoveries and their effects, the books explore the qualities that made these people trailblazers, the personal relationships they formed, and way those relationships interacted with their scientific work.

Student researchers of science, along with science teachers will benefit from this exciting new series.

This unique and interesting series features full-color photographs and line illustrations.

About the Author:

Harry Henderson has been a science and technical writer for nearly 30 years, in areas including computers and computer science, mathematics, and physical science, with an emphasis on biography. Henderson's recent publications for Facts On File and Chelsea House include biographies of Richard Feynman and Alan Turing, as well as the critically acclaimed Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Revised Edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (Library)
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1604136766
• ISBN 13: 9781604136760
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 112