Karen Hawthorne says, “No question: Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanted to create a search tool that would find the most relevant Web page first. If someone typed in “New York Yankees,” for example, the official Yankees site would be the first result returned. Their algorithm, created back in their dorm days at Stanford, analyzed the “back links” in a hypertext document, or how many times other sites linked to it — the more links, the higher the relevancy of the page. It worked, transforming the way people find information. Google grew exponentially during 2001, becoming a verb in its own right.”
“As the Daily Beast sums up:
Commerce, advertising, video, mapping, email — Google changed them all. On a list heavy with superlatives, nobody used their brains for greater impact on how we lived, worked, and came to know things.”
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