Larry Page
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- Born
- Known for
- PageRank, co-founder of Google
- Nationality
- American
The doctoral project meant to map the web's link structure became the world's search engine instead.
Page started at Stanford with the question of which pages link to a given page — the backlinks, which the web does not expose. With Sergey Brin he developed that into PageRank, a ranking where a link counts as a vote weighted by the linking page's own standing. The algorithm carries his name.
He was CEO from 1998 to 2001 and again from 2011 to 2015, then CEO of the newly formed Alphabet until 2019. The restructuring was partly meant to make room for projects outside search — self-driving cars, longevity research, balloon-borne internet — with mixed results.