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Sunday, 29th September 2002

A Look Back as Google Celebrates Birthday

Web Search--Google
Happy Birthday Google
Google is marking its fourth birthday. You can see the birthday cake at the top of the Google home page.
Actually, Google was around prior to October, 1998 as a research project at Stanford known as Backrub. The Google.Com address was first registered on 9/15/1997. For those search fanatics out there, here's a look at a few early Google web pages.
* Larry Page Asks a Technical Question About a Java Web Robot on 1/7/1996
* The Backrub Home Page Captured in 1997
"BackRub is a "web crawler" which is designed to traverse the web. Currently we are developing techniques to improve web search engines." "BackRub is written in Java and Python and runs on several Sun Ultras and Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on an Sun Ultra II with 28GB of disk."
* The BackRub FAQ in 1997
"If your question is not answered here, please email...or if you prefer call...and ask for Larry."
"* The Google Home Page Captured on 12/10/1997
URL: http://Backrub.Google.Com, 24 million urls "fetched"
* The Google Home Page Captured on 5/10/1998
URL: http://google.stanford.edu.
*The Google Pre-Beta Home Page in 1998
URL: http://google.stanford.edu.
* A Message from Larry via the Google Friends Mailing List on 7/8/1998
"We plan to have a much bigger index than our current 24 million pages soon."
*Google's Original Corportation Record (9/8/1998) in the State of California
Note: The Original Record Was Just Updated (About A Week Ago) with New Info
* Sergey and Larry Speak to the Bay Area Linux Users Group 9/18/98
"Google, the search engine of the future..."
* Google Inc., "An Early Stage Startup" is Looking For An Office Manager From 10/12/98
Craig Silverstein posts a message advertising this "killer opportunity".
* The Google.Com Home Page on 11/11/1998
No content, only 2 links.
* The Google "Beta" Home Page Captured on 12/2/1998
URL: http://www.google.com
* The "Why Use Google" Page From 1999
URL: http://www.google.com
* The Google Stickers Page From 1999
URL: http://www.google.com
* Google Press Release #1, 6/7/1999
"Google Receives $25 Million in Equity Funding"
* The Google FAQ From September, 1999
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Key Papers
"The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web"
By Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, and Terry Winograd
"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"
By Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page
Patents
"Method for Node Ranking in a Linked Database"
U.S. Patent No. 6,285,999
Inventor: Lawrence Page
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See Also: Other Early Search Engine Announcements
(Once of the Page, Scroll to the 12/15 Postings)

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