The
Brains behind “Google”
GOOGLE was
thought up in 1995 as a research project
Ph.D. candidates Sergey Brin and
Larry Page at Stanford University.
Brin was born in Moscow and came to the US at
age six, along with the 800,000 other Russian
Jews who flooded into the US under the 1974
Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Page was born in
East Lansing, Michigan, to University of
Michigan Professors Carl and Gloria
Page.Sergey’s father Michael was
a Professor at University of Maryland, and
mother Eugenia also was a researcher
there. All have a great sense of humor, as
their web postings (above) reflect (click
image for full picture)